November 11th, 2009
“We had some little design victories, like the eMate or the 20th Anniversary Mac. But they were never mainstream products. It was incredibly frustrating.”
– Apple lead designer Jonathan Ive, on the unoriginal design of Apple products during the ’90s.
[Via System Folder.]
Posted by davelawrence8 at 7:31 am on November 11th, 2009. Categories: newton history. Tags: apple, design, eMate, industrial design, ive, jonathan ive, mac. Subscribe via RSS.
May 7th, 2008
![The original iMac](http://newtonpoetry.files.wordpress.com/2008/05/originalimac-20080507.jpg?w=300)
This week marks the tenth anniversary of the Apple iMac.
I’m lucky enough to own one of the Bondi Blue beauties; it’s mostly my finance and gaming (WarCraft II) machine. I like to mess around with Photoshop on it, and I also got a copy of Adobe’s proto-web WYSIWYG editor PageMill to play with.
I’ve got mine running OS 9, but they originally shipped with OS 8, I think. It’s my truly “classic” machine, and also my Newton MessagePad hub. It still runs like a dream, humming along at 233 MHz with 160k of RAM.
So thanks, Steve Jobs, and thanks, Jon Ive, for bringing such a wonderful machine into being.
Posted by davelawrence8 at 7:17 pm on May 7th, 2008. Categories: apple, lowend, macs. Tags: 10, anniversary, apple, imac, jonathan ive, mac, macintosh, newton, OS 9, steve jobs. Subscribe via RSS.