Apple's Evolution Ping!
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Posted on 03/03/2015 3:13:40 PM PST by Swordmaker
The evolution of Apple: in pictures
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
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Clickbait. I’m not waiting for 27 pages to load new ads.
Pity, because I was actually interested in seeing the progression of Apple’s internet presence.
I use AdBlock and didn’t see any ads.
Cool. The Performa 405 was my first computer. Bought it off my oldest son. Then I bought myself a Performa 6400, and a Powerbook. Around 2000, got a green and white iMac. Had a blue and white clamshell, a swing-arm iMac, and two later iMacs. The 21” iMac I use now I bought in 2011, plus use a 15” MacBook Pro that I bought in 2012. Sold a few of the earlier computers on eBay a while back, and gave the others to my son to do with as he pleased. They all still worked fine.
I had AdBlock on, but when I turned it off, I saw no additional ads. So no.
Clickbait crap.
Oh... Zero ads...
I enjoy and use Apple products, but going back and looking at the images at the website (no ads for me) it made me remember how much I disliked the Mac hipster guy and the fuddy-duddy Windows guy.
I always thought they could have taken a much, much better approach to selling their great products than denigrating the people they might have been trying to attract.
That first slide shows an eMate 300; I have one — to go with my Newton 130. Both still work.
Then you missed the point of the ads. Those were NOT users of the respective platforms, but personifications of the computers themselves. "Hello, I'm a Mac" and "HI, I'm a PC" was the introduction to each and every one of the ads. . . not "Hi, I'm a Mac users" and "Hello, I'm a PC user." There was no denigration of any people going on in those ads. It was anthropomorphizing the machines.
They could do that but then they'd probably have to charge you for it.
By spreading the article across several pages, the content providers are able to display more ads as well as rack up more clicks (which in turn attracts advertisers).
That's why so many websites have those somewhat annoying "Top 10" lists that force you to click through page after page to see everything.
I don't complain too much about this practice because it allows me to see the content for free, as advertisers are supporting the website. It's like broadcast television. You either put up with the ads to see the shows for free or you subscribe to Netflix or HBO and pay the fee to avoid the ads.
A determined person could install ad-blockers on their browsers and avoid most of the ads. However, most people don't bother taking the trouble to do that. This is what the websites count upon.
Very similar to the business model for broadcast radio and TV. People can easily DVR their programs and then skip ahead through the commercials, but most people don't bother.
incomplete, but interesting, from Fox News.
LOL, well...nearly every person I ever talked to didn’t see it that way, including a lot of people who loved the campaign.
Thats kind of disingenuous, in my opinion. It is like someone insulting someone else, and when they take offense, say: “Hey, I was only joking!”
They knew they weren’t joking, and you knew they weren’t joking, but it is kind of the low road way out.
I never cared for it. That’s just my opinion.
But, I have been a Mac user since my first Mac SE. It was a lot of fun looking at those ads, I think I owned a device or devices from nearly every single one of them. And loved nearly all of them.
Even the 9500 that cost me a fortune, and nearly killed my fingers upgrading the RAM.
Look at them again. . . it's the PC having PC problems. . . and the Mac not having them. NOT users having problems.PC address the other guy as "Mac". It is obvious. You are reading too much into it.
Sure.
This display has a little program in Integer BASIC. Apple 1 & ][ had the Integer BASIC interpreter in ROM.
The display is a B&W TV driven through its antenna input & tuner (Ch 3 or 4) via a RF adapter.
FWIW, the Apple ]['s "Language Card" (with its own slot, in addition to the main buss's 8 slots) had room for 48K of RAM so the user could bring the machine's 16K up to a whopping 64K (that's KILObytes) of RAM.
It also had a ROM with the "Applesoft" floating point BASIC interpreter (written, IIRC, by a guy who went on to sell a bit more software with the "-soft" suffix...)
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