iMac AddOn (was: Future Collectibles)

From: Doug Yowza <yowza_at_yowza.com>
Date: Mon Nov 9 18:51:05 1998

On Mon, 9 Nov 1998, Max Eskin wrote:

> Even if we ignore that the plain G3 systems would likely have been
> enough? I heard that Apple sold out of their new G3s even before the
> iMac came out. All of the detail to which you refer will be forgotten
> in 15 years. By historic, I mean of the magnitude of the original
> macintosh, or the PC XT, or Apple II, or Altair, or C64, and others.
> These truly changed the face of computing, unlike the iMac.

Puuhlease! (Is Roger Rabbit still around?)

What was historic about the Mac? It was a cheaper, better Lisa. A mere
evolutionary improvement over another Apple product (which was just the
commercializtion of one of PARC's concepts).

The Apple ][ was just an incremental improvement over the Apple 1.

The Altair was a small incremental improvement over the Mark-8, Scelbi,
etc.

The C64 was cheap. And the PC (not the PC-XT) was just IBM's badge on a
dull box.

This should teach you two things: don't underestimate small incremental
improvements and/or "panache", and don't be a revolutionary (nobody will
remember you).

-- Doug
Received on Mon Nov 09 1998 - 18:51:05 GMT