Word.
― Millar (Millar), Thursday, 23 January 2003 01:26 (twenty-three years ago)
But while he couldn't be worse than Bush, I'd kind of like him to continue running Apple, so there can be lots more bright shiny objects to lust after.
Did I mention my resolve in not buying a new PowerBook is just about broken? Oh my aching credit card...
― Sean (Sean), Thursday, 23 January 2003 02:05 (twenty-three years ago)
The iBook and iPod are also going through redesigns. The new iPods & new 15" models are supposedly all ready to go, just waiting for old inventory to clear out.
See here for the nitty gritty.
― Millar (Millar), Thursday, 23 January 2003 02:11 (twenty-three years ago)
― Sean (Sean), Thursday, 23 January 2003 02:28 (twenty-three years ago)
I also want Elijah Wood so bad, but I guess that's a different story.
― Sean (Sean), Thursday, 23 January 2003 02:30 (twenty-three years ago)
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― SittingPretty (sittingpretty), Thursday, 23 January 2003 09:36 (twenty-three years ago)
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― Sean (Sean), Thursday, 23 January 2003 16:06 (twenty-three years ago)
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― Ed (dali), Thursday, 23 January 2003 21:44 (twenty-three years ago)
― Graham (graham), Friday, 24 January 2003 12:54 (twenty-three years ago)
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― Nordicskillz (Nordicskillz), Friday, 24 January 2003 13:29 (twenty-three years ago)
lol NeXT
― caek, Sunday, 19 October 2008 22:39 (seventeen years ago)
he talks about Sun dominating this new emerging "professional" and how NeXT could take 50% of the market in 1991. Correct me if I"m wrong, but from the early/mid 90s, I remember Silicon Graphics, a Unix workstation company he doesn't even mention, dominating this market. I worked at a printshop in the late 90s and all the RIPs for the high-end printers were Silicon Graphics. They also did their high-end pre-press and retouching stuff on some sort of Scitex systems.
― dan selzer, Monday, 20 October 2008 05:04 (seventeen years ago)
You have to wonder about the alternate history where he keeps on with that, goes nowhere, and Pixar ends up doing cutesy industrial shorts with a staff of six people.
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 20 October 2008 05:07 (seventeen years ago)
for what it's worth, 0xford University phys1cs department bought like 50 NeXT workstations in 1995 or something. I learnt to program on them and love them with the fire of a thousand suns.
But yeah, that segmented market for workstations he describes is completely imaginary. They sure did make an awesome operating system though, and without it there is no OS X. You can see him describing the limitations of PCs and Macs right there. I guess at some point someone at Apple realised they were all software (and networking) and relatively easy and cheap to fix if you went out and bought a modern OS.
― caek, Monday, 20 October 2008 10:52 (seventeen years ago)
to some degree it was there...he mentions "publishing" but doesn't mention art, graphics, music, movies etc. Something Silicon Graphics would dominate (at least the movies part) until PCs became powerful enough. I suppose the Mac Pros are basically what he always envisioned NeXT to be...but with expandability.
― dan selzer, Monday, 20 October 2008 16:17 (seventeen years ago)
, I remember Silicon Graphics, a Unix workstation company he doesn't even mention, dominating this market
Outside of graphics/publishing (ie engineering, software dev, legal) SGI was barely a blip.
― Kramkoob (Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃), Monday, 20 October 2008 19:01 (seventeen years ago)
Simon & Schuster announced Sunday that Walter Isaacson's "iSteve: The Book of Jobs" will be published in early 2012.
― James Mitchell, Tuesday, 12 April 2011 16:00 (fifteen years ago)