Defining the decade: ten years of Apple on one page: “Apple had to graduate through the passing of its founder, juggle relationships with an ever-expanding list of consumer and professional market segments, and adapt to the public attention and scrunity that only comes along as a consequence of being the biggest company in the world.”
Steve Jobs
Happy 25th Birthday Macintosh!
Twenty-five years ago today, Steve Jobs introduced the original Macintosh: “The computer for the rest of us.”
It’s funny to see just how much hasn’t changed in the past 25 years — especially Jobs’ consummate showmanship and flair — and how much has. That little machine that started it all is certainly a far cry from what’s being offered today, but it’s very easy to see how much today’s Mac still owes to the original, in everything from the interface to the advertising (I was really amused at how similar the two ads at the very end of the above clip are to many of today’s ads from Apple).
So happy birthday, Macintosh! And here’s to another 25 years to come!
Jobs/Mayer collaboration online
The composition created by Steve Jobs and John Mayer during the Macworld keynote while demoing GarageBand has been posted online. It’s an AAC (.m4a) file, so you’ll need iTunes or another .mp3 player that supports AAC-encoded audio to listen to it.
(via MacMinute)
iTunes: “Macworld SF 2004 GarageBand demo” by Jobs, Steve/Mayer, John (2004, 1:36).