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Today's TechCrunch whine: they should know that it's spelled the "Apple II"; I failed to understand what the "Apple 2 phase" referred to until they explained it
by unwind 14y ago
Today's TechCrunch whine: they should know that it's spelled the "Apple II"; I failed to understand what the "Apple 2 phase" referred to until they explained it.
- Samuel_Michon 14y agoIf we're nitpicking: only the Apple IIGS used Roman numerals in its name. The first gens were styled '][' (Apple ][, ][ Plus), later it was '//' (Apple //e, //c, //c Plus). The Apple IIGS was released in 1986, two years after the Macintosh was introduced, so that wasn't the model Drew Houston was referring to. (“We’re in the Apple 2 phase of Dropbox,” he said, referring to the time when Apple hadn’t yet made the Macintosh.") Also, he might have been referring to the OS, not the hardware. In which case it's ProDOS.
- lclarkmichalek 14y agoIt must be pretty good reporting if that's the worst thing in the article.
- unwind 14y agoHeh, yeah, but I didn't claim it to be the worst thing. It was the first thing that annoyed me enough to sort of start questioning "why am I reading this?". Then I sort of re-realized the source (a site with "tech" in its name) and got annoyed, so I quit reading and went back here to ... whine. :)
- josteink 14y agoThat says more about you than anything else though. That said, the I agree that TC is terrible.
- biot 14y agoThey made up for that by saying "Samsung Galaxy SIV" instead of "Samsung Galaxy S4".