The Mac turns twenty today. I love this quote from Steve Jobs:
"People are going to bring them home to work on something Sunday morning, they're not going to be able to get their kids away from them, and maybe someday they may even buy a second one to use at home..."
Here is the 20th anniversary Jobs interview. I love his response about market share:
"Apple's market share is bigger than BMW's or Mercedes's or Porsche's in the automotive market. What's wrong with being BMW or Mercedes?"
Another set of interviews has a section with Dvorak, who says, "Choosing a PC over a Mac is choosing beige over metal -- or beige over anything. The PC has the big market share because it's the safe choice. If Apple produced a safe, dull-looking machine, the company would, I think, be shocked by its success. Thank goodness it doesn't." Um, yeah, that's nuts. The reason I switched back to Macs was because of a stable operating system that was made humane by a company that concentrates on usability. It's a perfect match. You have the reliability of Unix combined with the usability of Apple. Windows, on the other hand, has all the elegance and reliability of the time machine from Back To the Future.
More stuff: Here is the famous 1984 ad that introduced the Macintosh. (Notice the ridiculous addition of the iPod). MacRumors says something big is coming out on Monday.
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