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To the public it was groundbreaking, but it is worth noting the ideas in both MacDraw and MacWrite were already approaching a decade old by that point, having f
by npunt 5y ago
To the public it was groundbreaking, but it is worth noting the ideas in both MacDraw and MacWrite were already approaching a decade old by that point, having first been on the Alto (Bravo and Markup) and later in house on the Lisa (LisaDraw, LisaSketch, and LisaWrite).
One thing the Mac really had going for it was that these ideas had a long time to gestate and refine because everything was still quite experimental and nobody else was rushing to commercialize the research. Definitely not 'I built a prototype in 9 weeks and I happened to nail it on v1'.
Agree with the sentiment though, they got a lot right on the first version, and it paved the way for a lot more.
- dmitriid 5y ago10 years, and still experimental, and they got it right. We're here 40 years later and all of that is forgotten and thrown out of the window. Often by Apple themselves.