Doug Yowza wrote:
>
> On Sun, 8 Nov 1998, Sam Ismail wrote:
>
> > > Yes the iMac will be collectable because it is taking a lot of new
> > > people into the land of computerdom. It is a revolutionary device, the
> >
> > Apple used that trick before. It was called the Macintosh.
>
> I think the parallel is with the Lisa. iMac owners will bitch about the
> lack of floppy, so Apple will make an iMac 2 with built-in floppy drive
> and offer a free upgrade to existing iMac owners... and a new collectible
> is born.
Didn't that happen a while back with the first NeXT cubes? Previous
situation where common sense by engineering was overruled by
marketing to make things pretty rather than really practical.
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Received on Sun Nov 08 1998 - 17:58:35 GMT