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A general problem is that recent products with minor differences are emphasized. A more reasonable diagram would show a confusing proliferation of products duri
by podperson 15y ago
A general problem is that recent products with minor differences are emphasized. A more reasonable diagram would show a confusing proliferation of products during the early 90s followed by rationalization.
Where's the QuickTake Camera? The Apple II floppy drive (which built the empire)? The ImageWriter and LaserWriter (which built the Mac empire?)? Oh and the sidecar based desktop design (the single longest-lived Mac case, and one of the best? Or its predecessor the Iicx? Oh, and the SE?
Took me ages to figure out the 2000 product was the Cube.
- masklinn 15y agoAnd it's not really a tree, it's a crappy timeline. An "evolutionary tree" of Apple, with relations between the products (something similar to the wikipedia release timelines[0] but more fleshed out and with better relational links à la Unix History graph[1]) would have been nice. [0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_Macintosh_models http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_Macintosh_models [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Unix_history-simple.svg http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Unix_history-simple.svg