Exactly my point. The iMac was a product for years before any of these other efforts. It did help, but it took all of these other products (most importantly the

Exactly my point. The iMac was a product for years before any of these other efforts. It did help, but it took all of these other products (most importantly the iPod, and eventually iTunes along with it) to really make it more than a flash in the pan. By the time it was effective, the iMac had been repositioned from an entry level computer to a status symbol (as displayed in many product placement ads), and eventually the non-workstation pro Mac. It’s iconic mainly because it was a pivotal historical point for Apple, not because it actually achieved that pivot.