Bearing in mind that Jobs famously intended to "knife the baby," referring to the cash flow from the 6502 machines, it is ironic that he fought to stop this clone.
I remember this phrase from a stage play, The Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve Jobs, but Google shows this source:
and the PowerMac clones weren't doing anything interesting and were simply cannibalizing Mac sales, cutting into Apple's profits --- really wish at least one of them had made a tablet unit w/ a Wacom digitizer, but that was too small a market as Axiotron found when they did the ModBook (which I still regret not buying).
I can remember the 16-page _Newsweek_ ad quite vividly --- the Mac was something special, and even its spiritual successor, the NeXT Cube did not reach the level of artistic flair which the Mac hit as a quick perusal of:
Bearing in mind that Jobs famously intended to "knife the baby," referring to the cash flow from the 6502 machines, it is ironic that he fought to stop this clone.
I remember this phrase from a stage play, The Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve Jobs, but Google shows this source:
https://www.theregister.com/1998/11/06/were_talking_about_kn...
The play doesn't even have its own wiki.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Daisey#The_Agony_and_the_...
He also put a stop to the clone PowerMacs when he returned to Apple in the 90s.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macintosh_clone
Yeah, but the Apple ][ was so vital to Apple's survival/cash flow that they made a disastrous deal:
https://www.folklore.org/MacBasic.html
and the PowerMac clones weren't doing anything interesting and were simply cannibalizing Mac sales, cutting into Apple's profits --- really wish at least one of them had made a tablet unit w/ a Wacom digitizer, but that was too small a market as Axiotron found when they did the ModBook (which I still regret not buying).
Good artists copy, great artists steal ...
Please provide one example of "art" which Franklin originated.
I mean, if you put a Mac or MacOS in a museum next to Picasso, that would make many people cry.
When people think of a Mac as "art", we call that an occupational hazard.
So if you call a Mac art, you might as well call any computer art.
I can remember the 16-page _Newsweek_ ad quite vividly --- the Mac was something special, and even its spiritual successor, the NeXT Cube did not reach the level of artistic flair which the Mac hit as a quick perusal of:
https://www.folklore.org
would argue.
Moreover, it made the cut at at least one museum:
https://www.moma.org/collection/works/3742?artist_id=10295
(and there are 24 other items by Apple in that collection)
and yes, they have a Picasso as well:
https://www.moma.org/calendar/exhibitions/5530
Anything can make the cut at MOMA. The gigantic disaster of OLPC is enshrined as "art" there too: https://www.moma.org/collection/works/155757