videoalex

I can't help but feel like you omitted two relevant details here - 

1. Gateway was also very active and a model for the Apple Online store around it's launch. (also it's retail launch)
2. Apple got most of its team to build the online store through its acquisition of Power Computing, who were the only ones who did build-to-order Mac clone sales. Their store was such a threat to apple that Apple first ended the clone program to try and crush them, and when Power Computing threatened to make PCs instead, Apple just bought them. (There is a wonderful record of this playing out very publicly in the pages of MacWeek ads from PowerComputing who weekly was threatening various reactionary business plans. 

I’m sorry-was this written with chatGPT? The wording is super strange: “Although other Eufy cameras can be used and operated independently, you must pair the EufyCam 2C with a required hub to utilize it. The Eufy HomeBase 2 is the needed camera hub, making it compatible with the native app and HomeKit.”

or, in English: “EufyCam 2C can be used alone or with HomeKit if you pair with the HomeBase 2.”

there are so many places where the language is a mess in this - this is just one example. Is it perhaps just a republished PR that was itself poor translated? 

dewme said:

This was such a brilliant move by Apple.

Buying computers at pretty much any brick & mortar (B&M) store back in the day was pretty much akin to buying a used car and dealing with a huckster salesperson 

My first Mac was a Mac Plus - I bought it at the department store where my dad worked. The salesman said "if you come back next week I'll teach you how to program it" - So I went back a week later and it was now a shoe department. 

Computers in the 80's were WILD.