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I think the fair comparison though is the mainstream then vs the mainstream now. No doubt there were early adopters ahead of the curve (although the article was
by robryan 14y ago
I think the fair comparison though is the mainstream then vs the mainstream now. No doubt there were early adopters ahead of the curve (although the article was framing the person as one of these)
- ben1040 14y agoI'd say that "mainstream" was rapidly changing at that point, given that Apple had debuted the iBook with 802.11b back in 1999. On the other hand, Apple didn't exactly reflect "mainstream" nearly as much in 2000 as it does in 2013.
- rdl 14y agoIt's just weird how early adopters were so far ahead of the mainstream in the 1980s (UNIX workstations! 56k/T1/T3 WAN or 10Mbps LAN, or even FDDI!). In the 1990s, I was a teenager and had (by being smart, not particularly rich) a decent UNIX workstation (Linux) and 9600bps dialup from pretty early on, and by being at a top university and doing consulting, a laptop which would be borderline respectable today (if super heavy). Today, a homeless guy can have a functional machine of his own, or use something at a library, and children/mainstream/etc. users can use approximately the same machines tech experts do. It's basically range compression between what high-end people have and what the mainstream has.
- robryan 14y agoYeah very much so. I have a retina MBP, whether your a billionaire CEO or someone with a half decent wage in a tech job your probably using a very similar retina MBP. (Assuming you are after an OSX machine, not that your going to get much better power/ weight and screen quality elsewhere ATM)