Future Collectibles

From: Doug Yowza <yowza_at_yowza.com>
Date: Sun Nov 8 19:24:55 1998

On Sun, 8 Nov 1998, Ward Donald Griffiths III wrote:

> > 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.

Yup, but do you think it was the magical marketing guys that made the
choice? I think it was Steve Jobs himself, Mr. Anti-floppy. First the
Lisa, then the NeXT, and now the iMac. When will he learn?

-- Doug
Received on Sun Nov 08 1998 - 19:24:55 GMT