10 Nov
1998
10 Nov
'98
8:22 a.m.
Oh, now I understand why you were disagreeing with me! Another debate
over pedantics...if I go by this, my original statement is hereby
revised to 'The iMac is not historic'
Err, no, I was saying that "historic" does
not mean "revolutionary".
History reports impactful events more than innovative events.
I don't think that the iMac is associated with saving Apple at all. If
anyone in the future is familiar enough with the iMac to think it saved
Apple, I would expect that the fact it is just a symptom of Steve Jobs'
marketing abilities and nothing interesting in itself or even more
desirable in any way than any other G3 will also be known.
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
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