Here is another article from the Wired arcives from 1997.
I just love reading those articles from 10+ years back.
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Here is another article from the Wired arcives from 1997.
I just love reading those articles from 10+ years back.
Excellent find NineSwords. Interesting read indeed; it's like opening up a time capsule and going "holy smokes! I totally forgot (this and that) ever existed/happened!"
Here are some of my favs from the list of "Hardcore Mac fans" :
Thank goodness Apple didn't relocate to Bangalore, team up with Sony OR become a gaming company!Quote:
27. Relocate the company to Bangalore and make it cheap, cheap, cheap. (See Wired 4.02, page 110.)
59. Invest heavily in Newton technology, which is one area where Microsoft can't touch you. Build voice recognition and better gesture recognition into Newton, making a new environment for desktop, laptop, and palmtop Macs. Newton can also be the basis of a new generation of embedded systems, from cash registers to kiosks.
62. Build a computer that doesn't crash.
64. Team up with Sony, which wants to get into the computer business in a big way - think Sony MacMan.
81. Merge with Sega and become a game company.
Well there are more games for the iDevice than for the PSP and maybe even more than for the DS. In most cases even higher quality ones. In my book that makes them a gaming company. And since they even provided a game (the poker one) they're a full blown gaming company with hardware and software.
True enough. The unprecedented growth of the App Store was/is truly staggering, one not many people saw coming when it first launched. Sony and Nintendo surely couldn't have predicted in a million years that the iDevice could have taken over the mobile gaming scene (or at the very least this quickly).Quote:
Originally Posted by NineSwords
Guess what I should have said was that Apple didn't solely become a software gaming company, like SEGA (sans console era or EA).
48. Get Ben & Jerry's to name a flavor after you. Suggestion: Apple Silicon Chip Supreme.
69. Change your name to Snapple and see if you can dupe Quaker Oats into buying you.
86. Organize a very large bake sale - look what cookie sales have done for the Girl Scouts.
90. Design a desktop model - call it La Dolce Vita - with a built-in cappuccino maker (featuring anything but Starbuck's - Washington's other great homogenizer).
My favorites out of all of them.
I would totally buy a Mac if it had a cappuccino maker in it.