9 Nov
1998
9 Nov
'98
2:32 p.m.
On Mon, 9 Nov 1998, Sam Ismail wrote:
Oh come on! Don't start this again. You're
going to say that the
Macintosh was NOT historic?
Puuhlease (indeed)!
Err, no, I was saying that "historic" does not mean "revolutionary".
History reports impactful events more than innovative events.
This is a much different story. The iMac has merely
"reinvented" the
wheel. The Apple ][, Altair and C64 almost were the wheel. That's the
difference. If the iMac had a holographic display and used strictly voice
command to operate it, then it might be on order of the Apple ][ or
Altair.
"Almost" indeed. Which wheel did the C64 almost invent exactly? It
doesn't matter that there wasn't a whole lot of computer innovation there,
the machine had impact (mostly due to it's price and game software).
The iMac will be seen as historic if it saves Apple (and that is yet to be
seen). And it will have a nice chunk of Jobs mythology behind it as well,
which sure doesn't hurt.
-- Doug