8 Nov
1998
8 Nov
'98
8:38 p.m.
Doug Yowza wrote:
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?
Well, Jobs is always the head of marketing, has been since he talked
Woz into cloning the machine Woz had homebrewed. (Admittedly, he
did take that long vacation where he was head of marketing for NeXT
instead of Apple).
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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.