How Steve Jobs saved Apple with the iMac 27 years ago

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  • Reply 41 of 47
    danoxdanox Posts: 3,888member
    williamh said:
    s.metcalf said:
    They still haven’t beaten that iMac G4’s floating display arm.  That computer got a lot of sales in customer service/kiosks for that reason alone.
    The arm had a tendency to go bad and no longer support the weight of the screen, leaving the screen flopping down.  It was a cool design but I don’t think they worked that well. 

    And yet today a bunch of geeks/analysts think Apple should come out with a niche folding iPhone with a crease in the middle?
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  • Reply 42 of 47
    9secondkox29secondkox2 Posts: 3,670member
    This entire story is bull.

    The iMac was in development before Jobs came back.

    You seriously think they developed the entire machine in less than a year?  Jobs became interim CEO in September 1997, the iMac was released in May 1998.

    You know who saved Apple?  Gil Amelio.


    Incorrect. It was Ive who kicked it off. He was the one who presented and created the solution. The brass merely said “ok.” 

    When Steve came back he saw how special jony was and brought him in close. Jony had the passion and perfectionist nature that mirrored Steve. They both really, really cared. 

    Steve’s genius wasn’t just in imagination and vision. It was recognizing critically important people and developing them. 

    Steve was a visionary in a broad sense. Jony was s as visionary in not only a design sense, but how to make the best design in terms of the way something functions as well. Together, they were unstoppable. 
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  • Reply 43 of 47
    Rogue01rogue01 Posts: 308member
    The iMac G4 was the best design with the fully adjustable display.  And no, they did not break.
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  • Reply 44 of 47
    Xedxed Posts: 3,262member
    Rogue01 said:
    The iMac G4 was the best design with the fully adjustable display.  And no, they did not break.
    I'm not sure I can agree with you on design having upgraded mine and finding getting the HDD was a many layer ordeal. I would say it was and is a wonderful design aesthetic for an AIO, but it's not great design from a repairability standpoint.
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  • Reply 45 of 47
    9secondkox29secondkox2 Posts: 3,670member
    Rogue01 said:
    The iMac G4 was the best design with the fully adjustable display.  And no, they did not break.

    It was an amazing design for its day. Nowadays, I think it looks quite unattractive, but there is no bearing the usefulness of that arm. I don’t know where that other guy is coming from since you weren’t talking about hard drives or DIY repair, but it was a tour de force in design and reliability at the time. 

    Today, the Pro Display XDR and studio display with tilt and height adjustable stand do a pretty good job of recapturibgvsome of that engineering wow factor while looking unbeatable in terms of aesthetics 
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  • Reply 46 of 47
    Is the color just very off in the cover photo for this piece, or is that not the original iMac. The blue in that pic is not bondi blue.

    I still have my original iMac. Any suggestions what I should do with it? I don't want to throw it away, but I have no use for it.
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    Xedxed Posts: 3,262member
    Is the color just very off in the cover photo for this piece, or is that not the original iMac. The blue in that pic is not bondi blue.

    I still have my original iMac. Any suggestions what I should do with it? I don't want to throw it away, but I have no use for it.
    I can find that photo many times so I’m guessing that it was altered for the original printing or it occurred during a scanning of what I assume was a magazine print.

    https://www.nydailynews.com/2022/10/05/remembering-the-life-and-career-of-apple-founder-steve-jobs/
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