8 Nov
1998
8 Nov
'98
7:24 p.m.
On Sun, 8 Nov 1998, Ward Donald Griffiths III wrote:
Yup, but do you think it was the magical marketing guys that made the
choice? I think it was Steve Jobs himself, Mr. Anti-floppy. First the
Lisa, then the NeXT, and now the iMac. When will he learn?
-- Doug
I think the
parallel is with the Lisa. iMac owners will bitch about the
lack of floppy, so Apple will make an iMac 2 with built-in floppy drive
and offer a free upgrade to existing iMac owners... and a new collectible
is born.
Didn't that happen a while back with the first NeXT cubes? Previous
situation where common sense by engineering was overruled by
marketing to make things pretty rather than really practical.