Cool (old) iMac Factory Story @ Apple.com
Just came across this at Apple, thought it would interest you who have never seen this article.
<a href="http://www.apple.com/hotnews/features/imacfactory.html"; target="_blank">iMac Factory</a>
<a href="http://www.apple.com/hotnews/features/imacfactory.html"; target="_blank">iMac Factory</a>
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<strong>This is so cool:
Yeah, that is cool.
I think that says something about how the West maintains its standard of living. It's not just Apple, but virtually ever manufacturer of consumer goods.
<strong>Interesting how all the Apple guys at the expos are white, most of the people in Apple's ads are white, but the factory shots only show brown people.
I think that says something about how the West maintains its standard of living. It's not just Apple, but virtually ever manufacturer of consumer goods.</strong><hr></blockquote>
Hows that??? by keeping the "brown" man down...?
that has got to be one of the most simplistic & ignorant responses ever...
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Interesting how all the Apple guys at the expos are white...
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Well, not ALL. I was staffing the Apple booth at MWSF this year and I'm not white.
That original Bondi iMac...man, it changed EVERYTHING! I remember seeing it for the first time and going "WHAT the hell?!?". But after about 22 seconds, I fell completely in love with everything about it, and haven't looked back.
Within a couple of months (late 1998/early 1999), you'd walk into CompUSA and see all these Bondi translucent CD holders, mouse pads and other third party gadgets by Belkin, MacAlly, etc. That's when I first remember saying to myself "oh man, Apple has really started something now...".
Then in January of 1999, here come the five fruit flavor iMacs...and all hell broke loose. Six months later, you couldn't swing a dead monkey without hitting something curvy, see-through and colored green, blue, purple, orange or pink!
But those first few months of the iMac. What a cool time! Remember, this was pre-iBook, so that cool look was only in place on the iMac. The G3 towers (ooh...) were still beige (or platinum...same difference) and came in a tower or desktop version. The PowerBooks were black with upside-down white Apple logos. Apple had a funky blue computer, some beige ones and a black laptop.
No iMovie, iTunes or iPhoto. OS 8 was the OS. The whole "i" thing had yet to really kick in and take hold.
Then we started to hear rumblings of a consumer-oriented laptop companion to the iMac...
The funniest thing in the world to do? Look through old issues of MacWarehouse, MacMall, MacConnection, etc. and laugh yourself silly at what was "cutting edge" and all, just a few short years ago!
I have catalogs back to the 1995 days...opening up to see "WOW! POWERPC LAPTOPS PROVIDE DESKTOP POWER ON THE GO!", flaunting 117MHz 603 chips is kinda funny.
I recently came across some old mail order catalogs from the clone days: lots of pages of Motorola, Power Computing and Umax Mac clones! I'd almost forgotten about that whole thing!
8MB of RAM was like half a gazillion dollars, 21" CRT monitors cost $3000+, Syquest drives (storing a WHOPPING 44 or 88 MEGABYTES) were "the thing to have", etc.
Funny stuff! Almost as funny as looking back to a 1973 JC Penney catalog! Holy crap...the CLOTHES!
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<strong>Interesting how all the Apple guys at the expos are white, most of the people in Apple's ads are white, but the factory shots only show brown people.
I think that says something about how the West maintains its standard of living. It's not just Apple, but virtually ever manufacturer of consumer goods.</strong><hr></blockquote>
makes it seem like you have never gone to a Macworld. At them many Apple employees are chinese, japanese, indian, or black. Many people who do their seminars are of those races, many of their reps are.
and I'm usre many of their engineers and programmers are