2004 recap
2004 another amazing year for apple. who would have guessed that apple starting from zero would been so successful in so many new markets. and to think a year ago music was the big thing.
It was the year of the enterprise. The brilliant enterprise solutions offered by apple really opened some eyes. Apple really put it together with a system that could scale from small to really really big and seamlessly tie in just about any old piece of legacy hardware imaginable. It was revolution in corporate it thinking.
Starting with the january announcement of the the acclaimed G5 scaleable Xserve family, any size, any configuration, any # cpu you need, connected by Xgrid to salvage all those wasted cycles.
For enterprises that need super-computing power the cost savings of Xgrid alone was a no-brainer reason to switch. The savings are that substantial. and the "corporate" switch ads introducing Apple on x86 during the super-bowl must have been replayed on thousands of outlets.
The MS Office killer arrived in spring with new AppleWorksX. Finally an answer to those who said Office was invincible.
Trusted computing paid off handsomely and with the persistent and expensive MS security issues corporate america and government was forced to look at Apple, with nowhere else to turn and a compelling business case to be made, (by ex Oracle sales staff), many organizations are switching to Apple. Apple is finally seen as a viable choice not just some toy for the media people. Not that the media people were left out what with the hot pro audio, video, 3d apps. and acquiring SGI and all
By spring it was bye bye Moto, IBM all the way. The new " IBM-G4" (G3++) in Ibooks, the low cost HD,CD-less NetMac (temp mac, drone mac), and in the return of the pizza box, the headless _Mac both under $500.
With the G5 hitting its stride pushing 3ghz in Powermacs and Xserve, and the low power G5 in powerbooks, IBM Fishkill could do no wrong in 04.
6 new HD desktop displays from 15" to 25"
by summer we saw two flavors of Imac. The G4 plastic Imac at Walmart for under a grand, and for a whole lot more at the Apple Store the 20 anniversary 25" G5 ceramic mac beautiful silent, indestructible, unobtainable
Fall brought the digital hub. media centers that connect and make sense of the mess of electronics and remotes in most homes. TVs, stereos, dvd, vcr, satellite all connected, hell I got mine hooked to my trusty old turntable and reel to reel, add in the functionality the best gaming system ever devised, all controlled by wireless oled color video tablet. Connect it up to your old tv or a dozen monitors, or one of Apples (via Samsung- TI) big screen displays, 40" on up to home theatre size displays. They were by far the hot item this christmas even making Neiman Maucus's christmas catalog.
don't leave out the ruggedized fuel-cell powered G5 powerbook with the week long charge, or the the evolving ipod that becomes whatever you need it to be data vault, media holder, video camera, pda, phone...
Oh what a year, happy 05
It was the year of the enterprise. The brilliant enterprise solutions offered by apple really opened some eyes. Apple really put it together with a system that could scale from small to really really big and seamlessly tie in just about any old piece of legacy hardware imaginable. It was revolution in corporate it thinking.
Starting with the january announcement of the the acclaimed G5 scaleable Xserve family, any size, any configuration, any # cpu you need, connected by Xgrid to salvage all those wasted cycles.
For enterprises that need super-computing power the cost savings of Xgrid alone was a no-brainer reason to switch. The savings are that substantial. and the "corporate" switch ads introducing Apple on x86 during the super-bowl must have been replayed on thousands of outlets.
The MS Office killer arrived in spring with new AppleWorksX. Finally an answer to those who said Office was invincible.
Trusted computing paid off handsomely and with the persistent and expensive MS security issues corporate america and government was forced to look at Apple, with nowhere else to turn and a compelling business case to be made, (by ex Oracle sales staff), many organizations are switching to Apple. Apple is finally seen as a viable choice not just some toy for the media people. Not that the media people were left out what with the hot pro audio, video, 3d apps. and acquiring SGI and all
By spring it was bye bye Moto, IBM all the way. The new " IBM-G4" (G3++) in Ibooks, the low cost HD,CD-less NetMac (temp mac, drone mac), and in the return of the pizza box, the headless _Mac both under $500.
With the G5 hitting its stride pushing 3ghz in Powermacs and Xserve, and the low power G5 in powerbooks, IBM Fishkill could do no wrong in 04.
6 new HD desktop displays from 15" to 25"
by summer we saw two flavors of Imac. The G4 plastic Imac at Walmart for under a grand, and for a whole lot more at the Apple Store the 20 anniversary 25" G5 ceramic mac beautiful silent, indestructible, unobtainable
Fall brought the digital hub. media centers that connect and make sense of the mess of electronics and remotes in most homes. TVs, stereos, dvd, vcr, satellite all connected, hell I got mine hooked to my trusty old turntable and reel to reel, add in the functionality the best gaming system ever devised, all controlled by wireless oled color video tablet. Connect it up to your old tv or a dozen monitors, or one of Apples (via Samsung- TI) big screen displays, 40" on up to home theatre size displays. They were by far the hot item this christmas even making Neiman Maucus's christmas catalog.
don't leave out the ruggedized fuel-cell powered G5 powerbook with the week long charge, or the the evolving ipod that becomes whatever you need it to be data vault, media holder, video camera, pda, phone...
Oh what a year, happy 05
Comments
With that optimism, we may have to soon call you Lemon Bon Bon.
As far as your predictions about '04 go...
**DMBand crosses fingers**
Originally posted by squareback
2004 another amazing year for apple. who would have guessed that apple starting from zero would been so successful in so many new markets. and to think a year ago music was the big thing.
It was the year of the enterprise. The brilliant enterprise solutions offered by apple really opened some eyes. Apple really put it together with a system that could scale from small to really really big and seamlessly tie in just about any old piece of legacy hardware imaginable. It was revolution in corporate it thinking.
Starting with the january announcement of the the acclaimed G5 scaleable Xserve family, any size, any configuration, any # cpu you need, connected by Xgrid to salvage all those wasted cycles.
For enterprises that need super-computing power the cost savings of Xgrid alone was a no-brainer reason to switch. The savings are that substantial. and the "corporate" switch ads introducing Apple on x86 during the super-bowl must have been replayed on thousands of outlets.
The MS Office killer arrived in spring with new AppleWorksX. Finally an answer to those who said Office was invincible.
Trusted computing paid off handsomely and with the persistent and expensive MS security issues corporate america and government was forced to look at Apple, with nowhere else to turn and a compelling business case to be made, (by ex Oracle sales staff), many organizations are switching to Apple. Apple is finally seen as a viable choice not just some toy for the media people. Not that the media people were left out what with the hot pro audio, video, 3d apps. and acquiring SGI and all
By spring it was bye bye Moto, IBM all the way. The new " IBM-G4" (G3++) in Ibooks, the low cost HD,CD-less NetMac (temp mac, drone mac), and in the return of the pizza box, the headless _Mac both under $500.
With the G5 hitting its stride pushing 3ghz in Powermacs and Xserve, and the low power G5 in powerbooks, IBM Fishkill could do no wrong in 04.
6 new HD desktop displays from 15" to 25"
by summer we saw two flavors of Imac. The G4 plastic Imac at Walmart for under a grand, and for a whole lot more at the Apple Store the 20 anniversary 25" G5 ceramic mac beautiful silent, indestructible, unobtainable
Fall brought the digital hub. media centers that connect and make sense of the mess of electronics and remotes in most homes. TVs, stereos, dvd, vcr, satellite all connected, hell I got mine hooked to my trusty old turntable and reel to reel, add in the functionality the best gaming system ever devised, all controlled by wireless oled color video tablet. Connect it up to your old tv or a dozen monitors, or one of Apples (via Samsung- TI) big screen displays, 40" on up to home theatre size displays. They were by far the hot item this christmas even making Neiman Maucus's christmas catalog.
don't leave out the ruggedized fuel-cell powered G5 powerbook with the week long charge, or the the evolving ipod that becomes whatever you need it to be data vault, media holder, video camera, pda, phone...
Oh what a year, happy 05
I would have written this off as wild fantasy if you had included an iTablet.
Thoughtful and well reasoned. You forgot the Terabyte iPods.
Aries 1B
It's still sort of strange to remember that Steve Jobs is the acting CEO of IBM. Of course, IBM pays him $1 a year but the Boeing 7E7 they gave him makes it all worthwhile.
Certainly not because it will run on Win boxes as well - all those people already own Word, and since they use about 1/50th of its functionality, have no reason to upgrade.
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So what say you two? Comments?