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The Apple II was the Woz Apple. Woz basically has to threaten to walk out, and leave the company without a products, to get Jobs to allow the Apple II to have e
by digi_owl 9y ago
The Apple II was the Woz Apple. Woz basically has to threaten to walk out, and leave the company without a products, to get Jobs to allow the Apple II to have expansion ports.
The Mac etc is what Jobs wanted. A sealed beige box that only did what Jobs envisioned it to do (produce a GUI and look good).
And yet variants of the Apple II kept outselling the Mac all the way until the II was unceremoniously dropped.
- inteleng 9y agoAnd people outside Wall Street worship Jobs, using him as the yardstick for good tech leaders. What gives, I don't know.
- digi_owl 9y agoBecause he was the Barnum of tech basically...
- Lio 9y agoWell Jobs was a complicated man and I don’t want to make excuses for other parts of his life but... He was also responsible for NeXT. That company was about trying to make the power of Unix more mainstream. Modern Macs are far more decended for NeXT computers than they are from the original baige box >= system 9 Macs.
- digi_owl 9y agoTo me making use of _nix but writing their own UI layer suggests that the _nix side was just a convenient way to get the base layer of the OS basically for free. This in much the same way as Linux use used just about everywhere these days, hiding behind a myriad of custom UIs.
- Lio 9y agoI’m not sure it’s that simple. When Jobs founded NeXT in 1985 there was no standard GUI layer for Unix. What you’re referring to as the “base layer” was all of Unix. X was only started in 1984 I believe and Sun also has a competing incompatible alternative at the time too. It wasn’t at all clear that the X Windowing System would win out as the dominant implementation.
- kalleboo 9y agoSteve Jobs was also trying to get UNIX on the Mac before he was kicked out of Apple in 1985 http://lowendmac.com/2013/apples-bigmac-project-failed-precursor-mac-ii-next-cube/ http://lowendmac.com/2013/apples-bigmac-project-failed-precu...
- kalleboo 9y ago> And yet variants of the Apple II kept outselling the Mac all the way until the II was unceremoniously dropped Although that was mostly due to price, not expandability (the Mac II with all its slots and RAM expandability was introduced 6 years before the Apple IIe was discontinued)
- jonhendry18 9y ago"And yet variants of the Apple II kept outselling the Mac all the way until the II was unceremoniously dropped." That was mostly school purchases.