OSX turning more and more into iOS
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- i_was0
- hahaha, gayapps.i_was
- exactlyclearThoughts
- designed for apple by Benjamin FranklinmonNom
- approved by Steve Jobsmonospaced
- clearThoughts0
Steve Jobs would have shot however designed that version of iCal in front of everybody to teach them a lesson
- that version of ical came out before job's deathdijitaq
- He was preoccupied.mathinc
- hahahahaha, I didn't want to say it lest someone call me a fanboy, but yeah, most of this was Steve's doingmonospaced
- fadein110
looks like a default HTML table - hideous.
- animatedgif0
@clearThoughts... actually he chose the shade of leather.
- ESKEMA0
Apple always targeted the little people, the everyday joe. They started that by making the first affordable PC. Their root objective was to bring technology to the masses and not just for a niche of rich or savvy people. Along the way, creatives adopted their tools for being easy and affordable (compared to high-end production tools). People started doing movies, art and design etc, with basically just a mac. That's what they do. They bring complex and expensive tools to the masses. They always did this and always will. The problem is we, the creatives that adopted their tools, are now needing more powerful ones, but if you think about what the actual average person can do with FCPX for 300$ and compare that to what you could do in 2002 with FCP for 1000$ you'll see a huge jump. They never were a professional focused company, the professionals were the ones who focused on Apple. As I see it, we're the ones who changed, not Apple.
- Horp0
Eskema, that is a beautifully romantic idea that doesn't reflect the truth at all in my opinion. In the early 90's when Apple had just about broken global and Sculley was the CEO, Apple products were about 5xmore expensive than anything available in PC land. It was quite a painful stretch to gain entry to the platform which had aggressively targeted design and publishing to find its purpose, and in doing so forced an antiquated industry into a one-horse technology-based new era. And they knew what they were doing. Art colleges were targeted for high visibility promotional campaigns and their program of subsidised purchases for students did much to make people commit, but very little to ease the pain of doing so.
In order to remain 'competitive' in my second year of college I had to let blood to buy an LCII 4/40, a Mikrotek scanner, and an Apple laserwriter. The total bill was about £8k, and without it, as the college plainly explained to everyone at their mid-term reviews, I would be struggling to keep up on a course that had been re-programmed for digital devotion.
The college computer room had about 12 Mac Classics, one scanner and one laswerwriter, and about 300 students in total across all years. Priority went to graduating students in year three and the MA course, and the poor slubs in years one and two, who couldn't stub the money for their own kit were forced into a sort of third class existence, putting their names on the roster for a half hour slot once every two weeks and knowing that an MA student could take their place as a priority case on a whim.
So with due respect, i have to say that in my experience at least, what you said is utter horse shit.
- ESKEMA0
^^ As you said, under Sculley's helm, not the founders vision. When Steve came back, with it came back the original philosophy too. But hey, I only had my first mac in 2002, so maybe it's just my romantic view of things..
- I believe Steve dreamt of everyone using a Macmonospaced
- + hardware at the time was sitll very expensive. I compare it to a RED vs Canon MKIII. still expensive but a lot less...ESKEMA
- Horp0
Sculley, appointed personally by Jobs as 'the only man for the job'.
Jobs, who was ousted from his own company for having such extreme ideas he was killing its chances of survival.Sculley was only executing Jobs' vision at that time.
- drgs0
as predicted Spple more and more is turning into Microsoft