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Sounds like Apple's previous work with printers has come in handy again

by lloydatkinson 4y ago

troymc 4y ago
I was curious about that and found this nice Wikipedia list of all Apple printers: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Apple_printers https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Apple_printers
- dmix 4y ago
  It's been 25.84 years since Apple introduced a printer. Their institutional knowledge is likely long gone.
philistine 4y ago
In the Steve Jobs Lost Interview, he was extremely proud of having made Apple the number one company in printers in terms of profit when he was kicked out. He remembered all the business deals he made with Adobe and others to start Apple’s laser printers. You can tell he was sour they pissed away that advantage.
- rasz 4y ago
  Apple laser printer business was printing money. Apple was buying Canon engines and outsourcing RIP to Adaptec. https://techmonitor.ai/technology/personal_laserwriter_ntr_printer_is_made_by_adaptec https://techmonitor.ai/technology/personal_laserwriter_ntr_p... Oral History of Grant Saviers, part 2 of 2 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Od830KDrLUU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Od830KDrLUU https://archive.computerhistory.org/resources/access/text/2023/04/102795787-05-01-acc.pdf https://archive.computerhistory.org/resources/access/text/20... "We actually made the imager, the raster imaging guts for the Apple LaserWriter. And I was just fascinated by Apple's business model. They shipped, drop shipped from I guess it was Fuji or from Ricoh or Cannon. I guess it was Cannon. They bought the Cannon engine with no controller and they told us when to ship the controller, the power cord and the manuals in a box for the customer to put it into the printer. So they never touched the printer at all. It was a brilliant <laughs> business model. No inventory. <laughs> No payables, you know, all receivables. <laughs> "

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Sounds like Apple's previous work with printers has come in handy again

by lloydatkinson 4y ago

Sounds like Apple's previous work with printers has come in handy again

troymc 4y ago
I was curious about that and found this nice Wikipedia list of all Apple printers: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Apple_printers https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Apple_printers
- dmix 4y ago
  It's been 25.84 years since Apple introduced a printer. Their institutional knowledge is likely long gone.
philistine 4y ago
In the Steve Jobs Lost Interview, he was extremely proud of having made Apple the number one company in printers in terms of profit when he was kicked out. He remembered all the business deals he made with Adobe and others to start Apple’s laser printers. You can tell he was sour they pissed away that advantage.
- rasz 4y ago
  Apple laser printer business was printing money. Apple was buying Canon engines and outsourcing RIP to Adaptec. https://techmonitor.ai/technology/personal_laserwriter_ntr_printer_is_made_by_adaptec https://techmonitor.ai/technology/personal_laserwriter_ntr_p... Oral History of Grant Saviers, part 2 of 2 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Od830KDrLUU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Od830KDrLUU https://archive.computerhistory.org/resources/access/text/2023/04/102795787-05-01-acc.pdf https://archive.computerhistory.org/resources/access/text/20... "We actually made the imager, the raster imaging guts for the Apple LaserWriter. And I was just fascinated by Apple's business model. They shipped, drop shipped from I guess it was Fuji or from Ricoh or Cannon. I guess it was Cannon. They bought the Cannon engine with no controller and they told us when to ship the controller, the power cord and the manuals in a box for the customer to put it into the printer. So they never touched the printer at all. It was a brilliant <laughs> business model. No inventory. <laughs> No payables, you know, all receivables. <laughs> "