What happened? It seems like everything they were pushing for computers to be nearly 20 years ago (Best performance, "top-of-the-line" technology, built to last, "We can do more", aesthetically pleasing) has dried up with only one one of those aspects still remaining (Aesthetically pleasing). Was it the fact that all the competition (Amiga) died? That too many people got into computers who honestly didn't care beyond the fact "It works"? What was it that killed Apple's desire to be the best home computer because I don't get that feel from their systems today?
You really seem to be viewing the good ol' days of Apple through rose-colored glasses. Macs were just as "top-of-the-line" then as they are now, and built to last was never any more than an empty promise.
Angel Gutierrez
This piece of shit happened. Since it prints money, why even give a shit about the Mac?
I was telling my dad today that a rich guy in 1999 got buried with an iMac desktop, just like the second pick in your post, and he didn't believe me. I fucking saw that shit when I was a kid, and I know it's true. I just can't find the name. I thought I'd put it out there, just so you guys know that macfags were always a dedicated bunch. The guy also got buried with all sorts of other shit, so there's that.
Hudson Campbell
Apple was always shit and PowerPC is garbage.
Sebastian Lopez
By 99 any IBM compatible for less than half the price was more powerful than any Mac.
Parker Brown
They do, but in an era of gaymer faggot nigger-tier rgb fan computer cases and garbage-looking korean gay-bar aesthetic laptops, they would be a breath of fresh air.
Yeah, that was a bit of an oversimplification. Either way my point stands.
Brody Smith
Steve Jobs was still interested in making computers before he died. Tim Cook is only interested in iOS and mobile shit. It's an absolute crime the way he's let OSX and the Macintosh wither on the vine. What little effort he has put into making new computers has been an abysmal joke. Nobody bought the TrashcanPro™ because it's not a workstation. Nobody will buy the iMacPro™ for the same reason. They haven't updated the MacMini line in four years. Tim actually thinks someone will pay $499 for a Haswell with 4GB soldered onto the motherboard with the hard drive being the only thing user serviceable. Apple use to own the education market, but that was served up to Google by Tim on a silver platter. Currently none of Apple computers have a standard PCIE 16x slot making Macs a poor platform for working with machine learning and computer science in general. I'm not sure how much longer Tim (only good years) Cook can coast on the wave of a dead man.
Carson Hall
I mean, supposedly they're creating a new Mac Pro that's going to be much more similar to the old one, with actual upgradable components. But none of it matters, they could let the macs die and they'd still be making bank from the iOS devices.
Ryder Hernandez
I thought that was the iMacPro. Why the fuck would they have a TrashcanPro™, iMacPro™, and MacPro™? Surely this is another Tim Cockup.
Ayden Morales
Good PowerPC G3 processors in sturdy colorful designs.
Ethan Scott
ALL THOSE MOMENTS WILL BE LOST IN TIME, LIKE TEARS IN RAIN. TIME TO DIE.
Given Jobs' past statements, and what he lived through, in my more sympathetic moments toward the man, I personally maintain a theory:
iPhone money, and no one at modern apple has VISION
iWatch iPad mini iPad Maxxi iPad Maxi pro
iPhone X
Macbook with 2" touchscreen Keyboards that feel like typing on cardboard
Non-upgradable 'Pro' machines
iOS appstore is total garbage
iOS design unintentionally flat
more bugs than ever in OSX
introducing more mobile phone shit to Desktop OS
Oh look, a fucking imac for pros that throttles like a laptop
wow what a fucking genius. Steve must be rolling atm.
Camden Morris
The hockey puck mouse was shit, but at least their stuff looked cool. It was whimsical, charming, approachable. Their current stuff is just... metal slabs. I can appreciate the simple elegance, but it's also kind of boring.
They could already get those from the likes of Sony/Toshiba/Panasonic/Fujitsu/etc back when Apple joined in on these functional but boring cubes of metal back in the early 2000s. Before then, even Apple's black plastic boxes were stylish looking.
Mac Classic/SE best macfu. Sure, the screen is small, but that's part of the charm. Everything you need is there in that little case that fits on even the smallest desk corner.
Andrew Morris
Here's a quote from tomi Ahonen that sums up the situation for Apple rather well
Connor Richardson
Color Classic very best macfu. All the tiny charm of the 128k, with just enough of the '90s polish.
Running MacOS is not as cool without shining Apple logo on the back.
You can run a Hackintosh today, and yet there's not much hipsters doing it.
Adam Garcia
Hackintoshes can be tricky to set up, an innocent update can totally bork it, and no tech support will touch it. So it's not a good idea if you have to rely on that fake Mac. It would be different if Apple made an actual official release for use with generic hardware.
John Martin
Says someone who never used a Mac from the 80s or 90s.
Xavier Turner
fpbp
He was no Wozniak but at least he ran a tight ship and wasn't loose and gaping like Tim Cock.
This.
This.
Nicholas Young
What about Darwin?
The Woz and his innovative hardware designs are why Apple succeeded its first 10 years.
Alexander Lee
I'm fapping right now.
Austin Smith
Because....
Brandon Brown
Does it include the cool interface / environment? Can it actually run macOS applications?
Michael Rivera
Darwin is just coreutils/Mach (now XNU) but it lacks the Mac(NeXT) libraries, Window Manager/compostior, and Cocoa stuff.
It would be like running GNU/Linux with zero access to the libraries, GTK or the XDG spec and technology.
There's GNUStep but people don't appear to know/care about it. We could pilfer so many apps from opensource.apple.com/release/macos-10133.html like the 3D chess app or their Rich Text Format App and compile and runt them natively on Linux, Windows and *BSD platforms like we have with GNUSTEP.
For example, pic 1 is a popular art app for MacOS called Pikopixel.
pics 2 and 3 are of the same app after recompiling it against GNUsteps' libraries. As you can see, even though most people run GNUStep apps with the default NeXT theme (like the basic WINE theme), you CAN theme GNUStep apps to look match your desktop.
If it all it is lacking is the interface, and that's all you care about, then that is your problem, not mine. As far as I am concerned, it does what an operating system is supposed to: handles resources and assigns them for user access.
I really miss the heavy plastic transparency electronics had. It was more durable than the alumishit they're pushing now. The only thing electronics seem to have gotten better since then is that there's a new hinge design that seems to function; that braid thing you see on the higher end laptops. But new electronics seem like they're selling to niggers. Gold plated, bright buttons, and simple functionality layered in redundant complexity to achieve the same thing it did years ago. Everything has this flat paper machete look to it, Like I'm in that Franklin Cartoon. Bright colours to keep things simple for niggers. No more need to label things appropriately in fact we'll have two things do the same job at the same time. I want off this ride.
Daniel Clark
basically what happened was capitalism decided that there was only gonna be windows and only going to be Intel
but gay people and mobile phones happened so Apple survived but there isn't really much you can do to be different when unerneath it all capitalism is preventing any alternatives
Hudson Jones
What if the aluminium slab was made out of transparent aluminium?
Dylan Sanchez
...
Camden Green
No you retarded faggot, corporatism aka fascism decided. But you probably think fascim started in 2017.
Liam Bennett
Kek. (((Democracy))) is the means by which power buys influence buys votes.
Matthew Brooks
No nigger that's why the US is great, it's a Republic where the individual's rights are where power originates. No mob mentality, no undue influence of the monied classes.
Sebastian Wood
ur blowing my mind dude
Isaac Rodriguez
...
Tyler Parker
*influenced by the Tee Vee owned by rootless 'globalists'. The average person has no real-world conception of governance or division of labor or the National culture or the ability to distinguish between political means vs political ends.
Especially women and non-whites. These people are too naive, too emotional, too linear-thinking to make decisions. Not to mention they have a lesser stake, women for example do not pay the blood-price in war. Women and blacks are both dependent on government more than any other class.
I detect a little bit of roleplay from you though.
Owen Nguyen
you're ok internet bot, you know how to entertain
Luis Wright
Agreed on all points except roleplay.
Bentley Stewart
Color me surprised. Why don't you go back to your safe space, sweetheart? It's right around the corner: >>>Zig Forums
bots don't like sarcasm, and their owners even made a nice meme to use as a defence mechanism
it should be on datamining bingo card
BASED
Eli Ward
Don't be mad at me, spacefag. I'm just tired. Different timezone.
Brayden Diaz
Transparent enclosures for electronics were created thanks to America's massive prison population. So that market is still around and mostly composed of the niggers you're complaining about.
the only decent Macs then were Power Macs, which were so expensive only rich kids and professionals bought them, similar to that trash can thing they recently released. we're talking peak FPS & AOL days, literally everyone owned a PC and iMacs were a slow joke
at least they were being productive. it's always better to keep the money in your country.
William Rogers
The economics of the fashion industry, which Apple is part of.
Samuel Jones
If I wanted to 'ave a gander at a computer's circuits, I'd have it caseless instead of trying to peek through some semi-translucent plastic crap.
The only good thing about it is that it didn't age like shit like the white plastic cases did.
Matthew Myers
And let it get covered in dust and exposed to other elements?
Angel Ross
tell me more about this transparent aluminum idea
Oliver Lee
brb, gotta get humpback whales.
Connor Brown
Did you know they hand out condoms in the prisons for free. But wait user theres more! Prisoners are allowed to plan riots in advance and the guards are helpless to stop it as confining and segregating them could be an 8th amendment violation or racial profiling. Inmates are allowed conjugal visits where they can get laid with some roasties coming to visit them. That as a prison guard an inmate can create a spear out of newspaper and rubber band from their underwear stab you with it like a ballista and you have to sit there and take it. They can also stab you with a dirty needle in an attempt to give you a bloodborne illness and you can only manage to make them sit 6 months more in prison.
Kayden Kelly
An Ex-Navy Officer told me that the Navy actually has developed something like that, but then I began to realize she had grown senile so I question it. She claimed to be a Lt. and served in the Pentagon. Just something.
Caleb Reed
It was in that same interview Jobs admitted to wanting to get libarts faggots into tech by any means necessary. He was always cunt
Yes, he was
Kill yourselves Applecucks Was trash by the mid 90s as it got left in the dust in PC arms race.
Lincoln Sanchez
lol Then thank god for corporatism, after all, it built the modern world.
All forms of resource distribution have and will be a fusion. You fundamentally cannot have one or the other in their pure forms.
Communism truly has never been tried, but it was never meant to be tried. Communism works if you have communities of around 120 MAX. Any more than that and you're going to need some form of hierarchy. Any person who sets out to govern either knows this going into it or realizes it pretty quickly, otherwise they won't survive in governance for long.
Stalin, Mao, and the other advocates of communism never believed in the ideology of Marx for even a moment, Communism has been a means to an end from the moment it was penned down. The only people who ever believed in Communism were the people dumb enough to empower those who wrote it.
You don't really need to try capitalism, it's pretty much the default behavior of people when they know the concept of trade.
Jose Ortiz
The default is feudalism, which capitalism is forming into.
Cameron Rodriguez
What's cool is you'll be beaten to death by niggers and noone will stop to help you.
Jonathan Stewart
t. temporarily embarrassed millionaire
Austin Murphy
The default for Europeans is feudalism, which was perverted into Monarchy, which was transmuted into central bank capitalism. The system our current rulers are aiming for now (which will fail when the Saxon awakes) is some form of pseudo monarchy, and almost the exact opposite of feudalism. (((They))) want to rule through deception and blind adherence to abstract rules. (((They))) want to chose who rules over the people. Feudalism is a system of strength and direct rule. It's the will of the people manifest. It is "us" choosing the strongest among us to rule. In a monarchy your birth decides if and whom you will serve or rule. In a feudalistic system you and your abilities decide. You can serve a lord, you can try your luck on your own, or you (Yes, even (You).) can challenge a lord to take his place.
Not him, but the number seems to be derived from our current understanding of human cognitive abilities. The average number of people a European can have strong emotional memories of is about 150. Beyond this, people just become names and faces and statistics. IIRC east Asians can remember a few more and east Africans less than half as much. That is probably the limit of direct rule. If we want bigger societies we will have to live with being ruled by communities of rulers who think of each other as people and us as names and statistics.
