On Mon, 9 Nov 1998, Max Eskin wrote:
Even if we ignore that the plain G3 systems would
likely have been
enough? I heard that Apple sold out of their new G3s even before the
iMac came out. All of the detail to which you refer will be forgotten
in 15 years. By historic, I mean of the magnitude of the original
macintosh, or the PC XT, or Apple II, or Altair, or C64, and others.
These truly changed the face of computing, unlike the iMac.
Puuhlease! (Is Roger Rabbit still around?)
What was historic about the Mac? It was a cheaper, better Lisa. A mere
evolutionary improvement over another Apple product (which was just the
commercializtion of one of PARC's concepts).
The Apple ][ was just an incremental improvement over the Apple 1.
The Altair was a small incremental improvement over the Mark-8, Scelbi,
etc.
The C64 was cheap. And the PC (not the PC-XT) was just IBM's badge on a
dull box.
This should teach you two things: don't underestimate small incremental
improvements and/or "panache", and don't be a revolutionary (nobody will
remember you).
-- Doug