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The millions of Apple customers today have little in common with the tiny hardcore group of Mac users who were hanging on for dear life back in the late 1990s.
by flomo 15y ago
The millions of Apple customers today have little in common with the tiny hardcore group of Mac users who were hanging on for dear life back in the late 1990s. For those people, Jobs was the savior.
The "Shitinabox" thing dates back to the Mac Cube, which actually did sell well for a couple months after release. (Presumably mostly because it was Steve Jobs Approved.) I think it was popularized by John Dvorak.
- ashishgandhi 15y agoProbably. But today's Apple isn't built on those hardcore Mac users. I wasn't one of them. If I go back in time, I would prefer XP over what Apple was shipping in 2002. I only have Apple stuff _after_ they became good again. (Too young to have had a chance to buy the originals - Apple II et al.) OS X is UNIX - love that - and it has nice proprietary apps which to me add lot of value to everyday life.