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- sotarts, on 10/11/2007, -2/+18Lots of good pictures here. I love the old ones with woz!
- coldfusion1970, on 10/11/2007, -2/+15Nice pictures.
And its cool being able to scroll through them using the cursor keys. - astrosmash, on 10/11/2007, -1/+13It's called Brand Loyalty, and it hits people when they're kids, which for most people would have been an Apple //e in the 80s, or perhaps a Mac in the early 90s. Most computer geeks who are now in their 20s and 30s were introduced to computers on a Apple, and while most don't use Macs today, they still hold a nostalgic view of the brand (and probably own an iPod)
Commodore and Amiga and Atari have their fans, too, the difference is those brands haven't produced anything of value in decades. - Ninjab3ar, on 10/11/2007, -4/+14On a random note, I think the aluminum Powerbook/MacBook Pro is the most beautifully designed laptop. I have no Idea what design that will evolve into.
- ilkeryoldas, on 10/11/2007, -0/+8the evolution of all Apple products in one picture: http://www.divshare.com/image/1076244-773
- meatmcguffin, on 10/11/2007, -0/+7Agreed. It's always so hard to explain this to people who have never owned an Apple and so easy to explain to people who have. I think it's because they have a stronger and more tumultuous history than any other company and it's a lot of fun to follow; like a Silicon Valley soap opera. The amount of times Apple has been described as 'beleaguered' over the last 20 years is incredible and no one could have predicted their return to the top of the computer food chain from the very bottom.
Hell, the hippie leader of a struggling multimillion dollar tech company being thrown out only to return ten years later and return the company to it's former glory? That's the stuff geek stories are made of. - TheRealDeal, on 10/11/2007, -4/+10If you have to ask, then you need to Get A Mac to find out.
- lovemaster, on 10/11/2007, -9/+15This is a genuine question and not meant to be snotty: Why are people so obsessed with Apple?
- Anrkist, on 10/11/2007, -5/+9The Steve Jobs sexy pose is great, I'm sure his fan club is getting all hot n' bothered by it.
- littleodie914, on 10/11/2007, -1/+5Because enough diggers thought it was interesting enough to be there?
- AugustZephyr, on 10/11/2007, -1/+4is it really AMAZING? No. Its interesting, cool, nostalgic, maybe even thought provoking. Stop using AMAZING on digg!
- VicHislop, on 10/11/2007, -1/+4I never had the pleasure of a dot matrix printer attached to the top of my monitor. I've never been so retroactively jealous.
- Vermifax, on 10/11/2007, -1/+4To piss off people like you. Apparently.
- Billions, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2I was just teasing, you do have a valid point - my point was Digg submitters often think they're the first to post something, and seem to do so without even searching to see if it's already been 'dugg.' I was joking that you probably will see this on Digg again - likely before 6pm Friday!
Maybe we need to impose some sort of moratorium for the word "Amazing" on digg... Some sort of 'captcha' should be used to determine if you're human or not if the filters detect the word "Amazing" in a subject line... - ilgaz, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2Let me visit with my Virtual Internet Explorer inside Virtual PC 7 running on G5 if it doesn't freeze. Yes, it virtually freezes! It also fragmented the virtual PC file which as result horribly fragmented the disk file is in. Something managed to create 1000 fragments on HFS+ partition and it is a virtual Windows XP , lol.
(typing these for people wondering why this makes to front page while BillG doesn't) - smartmlp, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2The reverse is true, Woz wouldnt be anywhere without Jobs. They both completed each other in the computer market.
- valis, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2*chuckles* Of course it will happen. My point is still valid. The word "amazing" is amazingly misused in titles these days. Oh, and my name is not Grumpus. I go by Grumpy Ass. Close, though.
- sv650touring, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2Actually, the people who make predictions about Apple's future have been the ones looking back in embarrassment. They're usually way off the mark, even in the short-term. Part of the reason people become absessed with Apple is Apple's unpredictability, which probably hits the same spot in their brains as slot machines and sports gambling.
- doofusoftheday, on 10/11/2007, -2/+4Definition of Amazing - "To overwhelm with surprise or sudden wonder; astonish greatly." I wasn't astonished greatly. Sorry.
- samuelcotterall, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2Is it me or does the old Apple HQ look like a McDonalds?
- Silverbird, on 10/11/2007, -1/+3Hey. Isn't that Raster Blaster on Woz's Apple in his computer room?
- Aggaman, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1I wish I still had my blueberry iMac. That was a great and reliable computer. It lasted for six years and was running OS X Panther when I finally gave it away. From what I hear, it is still going strong. All I ever did with it was max out the RAM and put in a new hard drive.
- Narwaffle, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1The turtleneck sweater is the source of his power.
http://www.vgcats.com/comics/?strip_id=186 - sotarts, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1The Amazing part here is that in contrast to 99% of all image-series on the internet this is actually a legal one, since its from a image-agency. And they are sharing quality pictures from Apples historie with the rest of us, something they didn't really need to do. I love it.
- diggkid, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1Stop USING "stop using" in your comments!
- kwilliam71, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1There seems to be an entire decade missing here. From about 1988 to 1998 there's almost no mention of any MAC or the MAC Clone fiasco.
- Aggaman, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1"Why are people so obsessed with Apple?"
Because Apple understood early that computers should be extremely simple to use, and that in order to make this work you have to put an incredible amount of thought into it.
It's sort of an Indian rope trick. Apple products like the iPod are really easy to use and completely obvious to anyone who picks one up. It's really really hard to design things like that, so they are fairly uncommon. Behind the simple ease of use of even the most minute features of Apple products hides thousands of hours of deep thinking and blistering self criticism. If you've used Mac OS X, you will find yourself constantly discovering neat little things that make you say "Hey, they even thought of that".
That is why many people like Apple. In an industry where complicated, shoddily overfeatured products are the norm, Apple is a breath of fresh air.
All this stuff about marketing is just countercultural ***** (i.e. look at all the sheeple except me). Some people vastly overestimate the power of advertising. In the end Apple succeeds because they make products with a great user experience. - Cherubim, on 10/11/2007, -1/+2Nice pics. I still collect and use a lot of retro Apple gear.
- Vermifax, on 10/11/2007, -1/+2To annoy people like you. There are billions of other web sites. Go visit one.
- omarciddo, on 10/11/2007, -4/+5The only thing "amazing" to me is that submitters still can't figure out any word to use to describe pictures other than "amazing".
That aside, it's very interesting to see how Apple has changed over the years, from the old Apple II's to todays iPods/iPhone. - CraigJ, on 10/11/2007, -1/+2see that little button up there? Ya know, Bury? Click it if you don't like it. If enough people agree with you then this will fall off the front page. See how that works?
- cdtoad, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1Ah but the forgot the best part of old Apple computers... Bilestoad! http://www.apple2games.com/wiki/Bilestoad
- jonahan52, on 10/11/2007, -1/+2My dad has that apple poster in his office. The one in the pic where Woz is bent over looking at something. Neat..
- kuyman, on 10/11/2007, -2/+3The Titanium Powerbook was even better, in my opinion:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:15-inch-titanium-powerbook.jpg - ObscureProtect, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1Hashahaha no way, Mr. Jobs looks so much more hotter now than he did back then. I guess 50 is the new 20 in Geek world.
- astrosmash, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1Looks like Pinball Construction Set, judging from all the icons on the right-hand side of the screen. Those were good times.
I also like the photo of the elementary kids with the Apple //e and the fan-fold paper headbands. - valis, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1I love a good teasing. Humor is so often misunderstood. I missed that you were teasing, for example. But - good reply. Personally, I think just replacing the word "Amazing" with "Gosh, I really like this:" might be fun.
- Billions, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1Sorry, Grumpus. Won't happen again.
Actually it probably will. - judicar, on 10/11/2007, -1/+2That picture of John Scully and Bill Gates talking just kinda makes you wonder you know?
- ggko, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1I was squinting at that too. I'm pretty sure it's Pinball Construction Set. I think Raster Blaster left much of the right side of the screen empty, and it doesn't quite look like David's Midnight Magic.
...geek. - RogaDanar, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1Sheesh...I forgot how many Moose Knuckle shorts there were in the 70s and 80s.
- trollzor, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1tzonic has a point, they sell more laptops than desktops now don't they?
- kildurin, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1BTW, the Apple II that is shown for 1977 is a Bell and Howell Apple II. That is a rare sight. I had one of the disk drives. Wonder where they found it for the picture.
- lornefs, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1Anybody think picture #8 looks a little creepy?
- gurm, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1$666 was a circuit board in a wooden box with no display or input device.
$10000 was a fully blown personal computer with a multitasking GUI environment. - ilgaz, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1That must be some quality dot matrix. If I have put my Star LC 100 (Still on sale!) to top of my Amiga 1080 monitor, it would fall while printing.
- kildurin, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1BTW, the Apple II that is shown for 1977 is a Bell and Howell Apple II. That is a rare sight. I had one of the disk drives. Wonder where they found it for the picture.
- sunjazz, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1FYI: Of all you people that visited our site until now:
22% Safari
60% Firefox
and only 13% Internet Explorer. Yay! - Ninjab3ar, on 10/11/2007, -3/+3I think they're too busy fapping to post comments...
- sunjazz, on 10/11/2007, -0/+0The amazing part would be that you see them all at once, and that they are legal :) (And I'm Norwegian and amazing makes people wanna click ;) )
I promise to never-ever use the a-word again on digg!
Linda
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