[DM-MUG] Re: Macintosh creator Jef Raskin dies at 61 (Darcy Baston)

[pegleg]

Hello all,

It is good to be back on this list. After losing my .Mac e-mail address I lost contact for awhile.

I have to say hello to Bill Davis. I haven't seen you since the old Club Mac Midwest days.

> Subject: Re: [DM-MUG] Macintosh creator Jef Raskin dies at 61
> Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2005 09:24:15 -0600
> From: Darcy Baston <darcybaston@mac.com>
>
> The last 7 years have been a big cycle of Apple bringing their past into the present, repackaged. Has anyone noticed these:
>
> iMac = all in one Mac from 1984
> OS X = NeXT OS
> Cube = NeXT cube
> Pages = Desktop Publishing throwback (Apple was/is king in this)
> .Mac = eWorld (their BBS thing...is that what it was called?)
> Mac mini = sort of Jef's idea, or at least Apple II'ish
>
> Darcy

I also wanted to respond to Darcy's comment. I agree, most of Apple's ideas of late are Steve Job's recycled ideas from previous lives: first Macs and
NeXT.

The exception is the Mac Mini. The Mini gets people to think about hardware in different ways. Instead of the focus being on "What apps do I run on my
computer" instead the focus is on "where can I put a computer that I couldn't before to make my life better." Apple will sell a bunch of these as 2nd
computers. Some to Mac people that may want a computer in a different place and to PC people who want a Mac.

Bob Titus