Pair of Twiggys

[geneb]

On Tue, 14 Mar 2017, Fred Cisin via cctalk wrote:

>>> When people decided Steve Jobs had become a god?
>> Right about the time that whole "computer for the rest of us" started...
>
>
> an unreliable source, who was working in Apple at the time, said that it was 
> being touted "for the unwashed masses, or at least ignorant rich folk".
> Somebody was smart enough to latch onto that and change it from third person 
> to first person plural.
> Using computer phobia to market computers was a smart move.

...and we've been paying for it ever since. :(

g.

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