iMac AddOn (was: Future Collectibles)

From: Doug Yowza <yowza_at_yowza.com>
Date: Mon Nov 9 22:32:57 1998

On Mon, 9 Nov 1998, Sam Ismail wrote:

> Oh come on! Don't start this again. You're going to say that the
> Macintosh was NOT historic?
>
> Puuhlease (indeed)!

Err, no, I was saying that "historic" does not mean "revolutionary".
History reports impactful events more than innovative events.

> This is a much different story. The iMac has merely "reinvented" the
> wheel. The Apple ][, Altair and C64 almost were the wheel. That's the
> difference. If the iMac had a holographic display and used strictly voice
> command to operate it, then it might be on order of the Apple ][ or
> Altair.

"Almost" indeed. Which wheel did the C64 almost invent exactly? It
doesn't matter that there wasn't a whole lot of computer innovation there,
the machine had impact (mostly due to it's price and game software).

The iMac will be seen as historic if it saves Apple (and that is yet to be
seen). And it will have a nice chunk of Jobs mythology behind it as well,
which sure doesn't hurt.

-- Doug
Received on Mon Nov 09 1998 - 22:32:57 GMT