“At the time Apple announced all of the following, the Mac faithful gasped, asked if hell had frozen over, or wondered what reality Steve Jobs was distorting. But in retrospect, all of these seemingly stupid Apple moves were actually brilliant,” Webomatica writes.
Seemingly stupid Apple moves that were actually brilliant:
• The Lisa
• Sacking Steve Jobs
• Buying NeXT
• Killing the clones
• Working with Microsoft
• iMac
• iPod and the iTunes Store
• The Cube
• iPod shuffle
• Moving to Intel
Full article here.
macdailynews needs to realize that Apple isn’t the best company in the world, and that not everything that Apple releases is like a gift from the gods.
Another brilliant move: dumping the iPod mini and producing the iPod Nano. The mini was a very popular product and following artistic passion they took it to a whole new direction.
seeming stupid article written by seemingly stupid bloke
One of the big blooprs was to discontnue HyperCard.
It revolutionized the education computing, with hundred of thousands of stacks circulating, empowering average people to program.
Hypercard stacks could have been made to publish on the web….. with millions out there online…
Oh well!
Oprah thinks all women are victims!
Splat says: “The mac mini is a much better “cube” and I’m speaking from a guy who’s owned 2 cubes and now owns 4 Mac Mini’s.”
Well, of course the Mac mini is a much better Cube. The Cube was released in 2000, which is ancient history in computer time. That’s like saying the iPod with video is a much better iPod than the first generation iPod. Of course it is!
However, at the time, the Cube was ahead of the curve, powerful and quiet. Mine is still humming along running OS X 10.4.8 in my daughter’s room. It’s fine for everyday stuff.
The dumbest move ever…..killing OS 9 and creating OS X!!!!!
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