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25 Years of Mac: From Boxy Beige to Silver Sleek
25 Years of Mac: From Boxy Beige to Silver Sleek
It's the 25th anniversary of the Apple Macintosh, but Steve Jobs' eyes are dry. At the company headquarters in Silicon Valley, where he was presenting a set of new laptops to the press last October, I mentioned the birthday to him. Jobs recoiled at any suggestion of nostalgia. "I don't think ...
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A quarter century of Apple sweetness infographic
The Next Web — ... Same in Wired’s infographic shown here. It shows a spectacular timeline of 25 years, designed in an unconventional way. Randy Krum from ...

Saturday Apple Links: Pre-Macworld Expo '09 edition
Infinite Loop — ... stop for a while [during Jobs's keynote] as everyone enjoyed the surprise," he wrote. "And for most of us it was a surprise; only for those in the small teams working on, say, the iPhone or the new release of Apple's office suite iWork would know precisely what was coming; and even they didn't know what the other teams had. And afterwards people talk about it for days...." As I imagine we will be doing next week. Speaking of reminiscing, veteran tech journalist Steve Levy has an interesting look back at the Mac 25 years ago. The original Macintosh was unveiled back in 1984; ...

As 25th birthday nears, Mac on the rise as Windows declines and Bill Gates still doesn’t get it
MacDailyNews — ... acting superior,' he said. 'I don't even get it. I mean, do you get it? What are they trying to say? There's not even the slightest shred of truth to it!' But that's not what the public thinks, and the sales figures prove it. Microsoft is now so rattled by Apple's advertising that it's running a $300 million counterpunch. The whole point of the 'I'm a PC' campaign is to assure customers that they aren't pathetic losers." Full article, with a nice "25 Years of Mac" timeline image, here . MacDailyNews Take: If Bill Gates hasn't figured it out by now, he'll never get it. ...

Steve Jobs on the Stupidity of Living in the Past and Uncertaintly of the Future [Steve Jobs]
Gizmodo — ... laptops to the press last October, I mentioned the birthday to him. Jobs recoiled at any suggestion of nostalgia. "I don't think about that," he said. "When I got back here in 1997, I was looking for more room, and I found an archive of old Macs and other stuff. I said, 'Get it away!' and I shipped all that shit off to Stanford. If you look backward in this business, you'll be crushed. You have to look forward." —From Steve Levy's 25th Anniversary story in Wired "And, you know, I think of most things in life as either a Bob Dylan or a Beatles ...

Steve Jobs on the Stupidity of Living in the Past and Uncertainty of the Future [Steve Jobs]
Gizmodo — ... laptops to the press last October, I mentioned the birthday to him. Jobs recoiled at any suggestion of nostalgia. "I don't think about that," he said. "When I got back here in 1997, I was looking for more room, and I found an archive of old Macs and other stuff. I said, 'Get it away!' and I shipped all that shit off to Stanford. If you look backward in this business, you'll be crushed. You have to look forward." —From Steve Levy's 25th Anniversary story in Wired "And, you know, I think of most things in life as either a Bob Dylan or a Beatles ...

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Anyone who has spent some time in a coffee bar with wifi already knew it, yet it’s official when Wired reports it. Mac users aren’t special anymore. First of all, every college student has a Macbook, secondly, have you ever seen the sales numbers of the iPhone?! If you need a ...