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- sphinx13, on 10/12/2007, -11/+68did anyone else notice this?
http://www.flickr.com/photos/kernelpanic/14909783/in/set-283374/ - Lacero, on 10/12/2007, -0/+15Those screenshots are missing the vital tabs along the top.
- EvilFerret, on 10/12/2007, -0/+14HELP WANTED: Somebody to go back in time with me to buyout Apple. This is not a joke, PO Box 420 LA,CA 90012. Must bring your own investment money and plenty of beer. I cannot guarantee your safety nor the possibility of me drinking all of the beer before you get any. I have not done this before.
- DelMonte, on 10/12/2007, -1/+14Hey Bitrate, go back to your precious Apple ][ and stop bothering us.
Oh and Woz called, he says he doesn't want to be your friend. - jaimevejar, on 10/12/2007, -1/+13ironic isnt it?
http://www.flickr.com/photo_zoom.gne?id=11379744&context=set-283374&size=o - bxzcd, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10The 1997 screenshot looks like something I designed. Ugly.
- axiomflash, on 10/12/2007, -1/+10wow, what an idiot! i dont even know how else to respond!
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+10Yeah, what is that? Netscape 2.0?
- tinygibbles, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9http://www.flickr.com/photos/kernelpanic/11390748/in/set-283374/
Oh yes, I rememer it well. HELL FROZE OVER when itunes for Windows was released.(!) I bought stock then. It was around 20 bucks/share pre split. The year I switched and never looked back. Except for 2006 when I spent the year supporting Outlook at a corporate help desk. Pure hell. - baxtermaddux, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9my personal favorite
http://www.flickr.com/photos/goodgrief/253027497/ - jcs_goog, on 10/12/2007, -5/+10Excellent! I enjoy these things. If you want to see hundreds more iterations of Apple.com, visit the WayBackMachine:
http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.apple.com - Szandor, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6Is there a way to view the slideshow in reverse chronological order? Seems to me it would be more interesting to go from older to newer ads than vice versa.
- ThirdPrize, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5Now let see how Jobs' hair style has changed over the years.
- Greyarea, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5@Bitrate: Wow. So many words, so little understanding.
- DreKor, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4That'd be pretty boring. Only 18 elements on the page currently.
- baxtermaddux, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5notice the 55 million dollar quarter profit? my how they have grown
- radio1mike, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5Bizrate, how can you know so much and understand so little?
Apple, even if the /// was a big hit, it would have eventually failed because of Big Blue. You say people asked if the Mac (in 1984) was PC compatible? No one 1984 would have asked that question. They would have asked is it IBM-PC compatible? IBM was the only company that could have sponsored the microcomputer growth in a business environment. They had the name, the reach and the trust of Fortune 500 type companies. Apple would be 'stuck' with what they got anyways: academics, soho-use and arthouse-type of industries like desktop pub, and design elements.
Could Apple, namely Jobs (and Woz) decided a few things differently and led to them being more widely-accepted? Sure. But even if Apple went belly-up today, being known for: Apple I/II, Mac and iPod is quite a hall of fame, arguably better than Microsoft, lineup. - mikew101, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3it would be cooler to see this done for yahoo
- brstilson, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4"He should never have returned. Apple as a computer company is finished with him at the helm. He has caved in and turned Apple into an appliance company complete with an elitist userbase that wouldn't know a bit from their bum."
Apple is finished? what version of history are you reading? Here's a nice little refresher for you.
The year was 1996 and Apple was in dire straits. They were bleeding money and their product line was extremely unappealing. The people that had kicked Jobs out made the same mistake IBM made by allowing others to clone and sell their platform. The same thing happened: the clone manufacturers were selling Macintosh copies at much lower prices than Apple itself could sell, and Apple was getting the raw end of the deal, losing way more money than what they were making from licensing. Along comes Steve Jobs, who immediately kills the clone deals. A year later, he introduces the iMac and changes their target audience back to the average consumer. The iMac is an incredible success, and turns the company around. Then, in 2001, the iPod was introduced. It sold extremely well despite it being Mac-only. The iPod became cash cow number 2 for Apple. Steve Jobs turned that company around and made it extremely profitable.
Most of Apple's user base just wants a computer that does what they want it to do. The majority of consumers buy computers to surf the internet, check e-mail, and once in a while type letters. Macs can do that just as well as PCs can. Sure, there are some in the elitist fringe that fit your description perfectly, but those people are the minority. Again, people want their computers to do that magical phrase: "just work." That's what the purpose of having a computer is, to make our lives easier, not to boost the self-esteem of some pasty-skinned shut-in nerd. I find it funny that some of the same people who criticize Apple users for being snobs are the ones that push Linux on everybody they meet. I find that there are far more "elitist snobs" in the Linux user base than the Mac user base.
You are not Alan Greenspan. The market does not follow your opinion. You can hate Apple all you want, that's fine, but when you correlate your hate with failure by basically saying 'I hate Apple, therefore they are not doing well financially,' you come off like an ignorant jackass. - csimpkins, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4Someone going to put one of these together every time apple changes their site?
- Domza, on 10/12/2007, -4/+7some one should do this for google :)
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4Great trip down memory lane, but not so much of an evolution. The front page layout hasn't changed much at all since late '97: One main image, a 'hot news' bar, and three or four small images underneath.
New tabs and a new font in 2001/2002 are about the only changes. Pretty impressive longevity for a 10-year-old web layout, considering '97 was still just barely out of the dark ages of web design. - greymaxcat, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Apple.com did not evolve. It was created.
- brstilson, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4"When the Mac came out in 1984, people were sceptical and curious about it. They wondered if it was "PC compatible". Such was the mindset at that time about PCs, it's a wonder the Mac really took off the way it did. Back in the early 80's it was either "IBM PC" or nothing for business."
Your mistake here was that you assumed that the climate in the early 80's computer industry was the same as it was today: namely, Macs and PCs being the only players in town. All you need to do is watch a few old episodes of Computer Chronicles to see how wrong you are. Back in the early days of the IBM PC, Operating Systems were as numerous as manufacturers. Micro versions of Unix were appearing on the horizon, some PCs were running CP/M, Apples were running Apple's OS, Commodore ran it's own proprietary OS as well. No, people didn't care about whether their computers were "PC Compatible." This didn't happen until the mid-to-late 80's after Microsoft started selling DOS to the IBM clone makers.
IBM may have provided a unified platform for hardware and software, but they ultimately paid a high price for it. Their PC division suffered a died a while ago, and more recently their notebook line was sold to China. By letting Microsoft sell to their competitors, people lost the reason to buy IBM, especially when the faster compatibles were cheaper. - JonProphet, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3how very lovely
- prockcore, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5I've got to say the photo of the fully buttoned up jean jacket is extremely unflattering. Looks like something out of a 1980's Penny's Catalog.
- brstilson, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2This could have been done with fewer pictures.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -4/+6@the Apple Website Hacker
Ahhh i see, the future of MacOS is very bright.. - mrdebonair, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Even in the old days, Apple was colorful and pretty.
- duxxyuk, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Superb collection of images... Has anyone done the same for Microsoft, Red Hat, and Debian by any chance ?
- Szandor, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Reminds of a scene in American Beauty.
- indyGuy, on 10/12/2007, -8/+9All I have to say is Apple has style. Those early websites are excusable - still better than most in the era. And no, I'm not a fanboy. I do all my video postproduction, effects, graphic design, and dvd authoring on an XP Dell.
- o0joshua0o, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1It's hard to ignore the pictorial evidence, but I firmly believe that the entire Apple website was spontaneously created in its current form by the Flying Spaghetti Monster as recently as 20 days ago.
- KayIslandDrunk, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Yeah I just went to the last page and worked back, it kind of spoiled it.
- Szandor, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Probably the intention (you know, 'fashion goes in cycles' and all that).
- brstilson, on 10/12/2007, -4/+4"yea cause microsoft does hardware right?"
Zune
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Xbox 360 - AppleGeek, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0this is cool, but it can always be done with the wayback machine
- JoeSlingo, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1> did anyone else notice this?
> http://www.flickr.com/photos/kernelpanic/14909783/in/set-283374/
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Interview - http://www.sristysaviation.com/interview.html - binky79, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1do we need to see this same story every 3 months?
- skyyks, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0Thts cool
- KielKilla, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0Apple is a trend. It's nice to look at and has interesting features but really If I want a computer I need windows to actually accomplish something. Anyways linux looks nicer then anything apple has ever made I think.
- AnotherCanadian, on 10/12/2007, -4/+3dugg with a passion. i was just wondering about this today as i browsed the blacked up apple.com
- skwead, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0why change that is working?
- frostyrellik, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0I have always thought that Apple adds were too cutesy, then again, so is the Mac. They need to show the product off more, you know features and benefits, how it works, the stuff I really need to know about.
- greekgeek1, on 10/12/2007, -2/+0great stuff, the apple stock has rised accordingly http://www.trendio.com/word.php?wordid=1371&language=en
- SleeStaK911, on 10/12/2007, -3/+0Yay! - uh, not.
Dugg down for boring.
Where's that Prozac? - clickmyface, on 10/12/2007, -6/+3"The Evolution of Apple.com"
evolution? More like Evilution! -
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