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Before 2005 I only ever saw Macs in offices, studios and universities. There was one guy I knew had a Mac at home, but he was a designer. For context, I'm in EU
by whstl 2y ago
Before 2005 I only ever saw Macs in offices, studios and universities. There was one guy I knew had a Mac at home, but he was a designer. For context, I'm in EU.
One of my first jobs was working with printing/scanning software and my company would install Macs in some large enterprises because of AppleTalk's printer sharing capabilities.
- jen20 2y agoBefore 2000 that was also my experience (I was in the EU then too). Between 2000-2005 there was a steady increase of iBook/Powerbook owners thanks to being the only laptop with a reasonable battery that could run a Unix.
- dwaite 2y agoIn late 2001 (in the US) I switched off of desktop Linux to a used iBook G3, and have never really went back. We were a small company and I switched to using that iBook for some work (C++ development for *nix-based systems). I felt I was an early adopter there by a few years. I converted my workstation (which for reasons was way more powerful than the ones the rest of the development group had) into a build server and a local RedHat/Debian cache for the team. That poor iBook did not have the horsepower to build the software locally in a reasonable amount of time :-) Apple basically created their own retail stores to accelerate their consumer sales channel, and the first one in the EU was in 2004.