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Xed said:

It is a rarity. Name all the EC branding that is still enduring today after a quarter century and there will still be countless more that has not. Rarity ≠ singularity.

That is pedantically true that the majority of brands, really in any industry, will eventually fail and the company itself goes bankrupt.  AMD's Athlon processors have another two more years to go to cross the 25 year threshold.  Intel's pentium brand is over 30 years old.  Texas Insturments has been making TI-XX calculators since 1976.    I was able to easily come up with several brands just off the top of my head in my first post, plus Microsoft's xbox brand is going to be crossing the 25+ year mark in three years.  It is a lot more common than the author of this article is claiming.  The author of the article was implying that iMac was essentially the only brand in the computer space or the larger electronics space that has lasted as a brand for 25+ years, or as you put it, a singularity, and that is what I'm taking issue with.

Nice list, but I will note that the statement you quoted didn't state that the Mac was the only "computer" being sold with the same branding 25 years later.

And I will note that the statement being quoted is implying that the iMac is a rarity, not just in computer branding but in electronic branding for being actively sold after 25 years.  My point with my list is that it isn't a rarity at all, in fact it is quite common, not just in computers also in other electronics, such as as the sony walkman.

Also, while I'm perfectly fine with modern portable music players and video game consoles being included as they are very specialized computing devices* I do think the original statement is referring to personal computers in the traditional sense.

Read the original quote again, you see the part where it says "any other device", what do you think that means?  It means any electronic device that is not a computer.

just try to think of any other computer — any other device — that is still being sold a quarter of a century after it was launched.

Dell Dimensions are still being sold........

Thinkpad laptops are still being sold.

Playstations are still being sold

Heck even Sony's Walkman is still being sold.

There are a lot of electronic products that are still being sold a quarter of a century later using the same name branding.

lkrupp said:

Survey says over half of Apple’s employees leaving over this? Absolute bullshit. One commenter had only been working there three weeks? Gimme a break. Then comes the money shot. The survey predicted everyone would leave after 4/15 when their stock options vested. Didn’t happen.

Steve Jobs was famous for saying he only wanted A listers working for him, not B and C listers. Well, these buffoons are definitely not A types are they. The B and C types are a dime a dozen and can easily be replaced. They do the paperwork, data entry, run the copy machines, they do not work with Johny Srouji do they.

Apple has gotten so big they have been forced to hire entitled millennials who want six figure salaries without producing anything.

Yet another clickbait survey trying to smear large companies. 

Imagine simping  for large companies you don't work for.

flydog said:

You are wrong. Apple began paying dividends in 1988, and has repurchased stock on and off over the years, though both accelerated under Tim Cook. 

Steve Jobs was no longer at Apple in 1988.  He left in 1985.