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Thirty Years of Mac [video]

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Re: Thirty Years of Mac [video]

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Post by Shivetya »

thomseddon wrote: post #8

Not sure if it's just me but I find this video remarkably uninspiring. It just seems to lack real content? Now I'm more than willing to accept that I'm not the exact target for this video, and that the subject matter of the following video makes it a slightly unfair comparison, but the contrast to the quality of the Steve Jobs tribute video is vast: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0y2WpieYRks The latter video literal…

well its all about people being creative and how the Mac helped them achieve it. Surprisingly, well maybe not, it never showed anyone using it for typical business work which pretty much sums up why Macs (OS X) never made it in the real business world.

Re: Thirty Years of Mac [video]

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Post by username42 »

poolpool wrote: post #20
username42 wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Older macs were more robust. I think this is one reason of the failure of apple against microsoft: when you have a computer that enables you to do your stuff without problems or failures, you do not need to replace it by a new one. Microsoft has understood how to earn a lot more money by selling half broken products that people want to replace by better ones. Maybe, this was not intentional. btw, this post is risky f…

Microsoft isn't responsible for terrible OEMs.

You think so ?

Re: Thirty Years of Mac [video]

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Post by itafroma »

Void_ wrote: post #38

Art, art, art... Why can't they show programmers in an ad for once? Apple you can come film me at any time.

The first 20 seconds of the ad features John Maeda, who is a programmer, and there are a number of other programmers featured in the ad and on the timeline: Theodore Gray, John Knoll, Craig Hickman, Rand Miller, Philip Jackson, Nicholas Felton, Dr. Maki Sugimoto, Ryan Bubinski, and Daito Manabe.

Re: Thirty Years of Mac [video]

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Post by WoodenChair »

When I was a little kid we had a Mac II and a Mac LC. I spent so many hours with them... The software I used and the machines themselves inspired so many interests. The computers themselves eventually became a life long passion.

I've heard of Commodore users having that affinity for C64s and Amiga owners and a few other manufacturers... I've never heard a person say they fell so in love with their Compaq Q2150... There's something special about the Macintosh. I think it's that it's so clear that the manufacturers really cared about the user experience that they inspired the same in the software developers for the platform.

Re: Thirty Years of Mac [video]

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Post by gilgoomesh »

thomseddon wrote: post #8

Not sure if it's just me but I find this video remarkably uninspiring. It just seems to lack real content? Now I'm more than willing to accept that I'm not the exact target for this video, and that the subject matter of the following video makes it a slightly unfair comparison, but the contrast to the quality of the Steve Jobs tribute video is vast: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0y2WpieYRks The latter video literal…

The video is relatively bland but its just a series of 30 (one for each year) endorsements by creative/engineering professionals.

I actually prefer the timeline view (of the same people):

https://www.apple.com/30-years/#timeline

Re: Thirty Years of Mac [video]

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Post by anaran »

anaran wrote: post #33
mynames wrote: post #17

"Download QuickTime to view this video". No thanks.

All they are trying to say is they don't want new customers. Either you are inside their walled garden, or out (the better place for me).

Hmmh, now I can see the Apple Timeline in Firefox (Nightly) at http://www.apple.com/30-years/

Re: Thirty Years of Mac [video]

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Post by keeperofdakeys »

csmithuk wrote: post #29
shootinputin wrote: post #13

How come people talk about 30 years of Mac but no one talks about 25+ years of Windows or Linux for that matter. I saw numerous blog posts of parroting this advertisement, even in my morning daily commute news paper.

This is normal. They are the poster boy for a corporation despite having screwed up incredibly so many times over the years, nearly fallen off a cliff and treating their customers like crap ( "you're holding it wrong" for example) and still only maintaining a minority market share on the desktop and handset market. Also they have several system architectures and complete API rewrites over the years that mean their cl…

Unix may be 45 years old, but only code from the last 30 will probably compile. That isn't even talking about apis that may have changed, etc.

Re: Thirty Years of Mac [video]

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Post by coldtea »

sz4kerto wrote: post #4

That's all I can add to this short movie: http://m.cdn.blog.hu/ap/appleblog/image/doghouse-comic.png (I am happy to be downvoted for the joke, so just keep going :) )

As if shitting isn't important?

We can live without wind turbines and scuba diving, but shitting and having something to read on the crapper is essential.

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