8 Nov
1998
8 Nov
'98
5:58 p.m.
Doug Yowza wrote:
On Sun, 8 Nov 1998, Sam Ismail wrote:
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.
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Yes the
iMac will be collectable because it is taking a lot of new
people into the land of computerdom. It is a revolutionary device, the
Apple used that trick before. It was called the Macintosh.