Minimal Mac

The more things change…

The Macintosh, or Mac, is a series of several lines of personal computers designed, developed, and marketed by Apple Inc. The first Macintosh was introduced on January 24, 1984; it was the first commercially successful personal computer to feature a mouse and a graphical user interface rather than a command-line interface.

Macintosh - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

As it began, so it ends. The iPad heralds the beginning of a new era of computing based not on the mouse and the desktop metaphor, but on touch and the ‘apps’ metaphor.

People complained about the original Mac: it used a mouse, it used a GUI, there wasn’t enough software. Then they actually tried it.

Now, famous for design and user interface, Apple is doing what Apple does best: introducing a new product, a new concept in computing, that will redefine the way everyone uses a computer.

You heard it here first.

Another reblog. Imagine that…

Look, I’m just going to spell it out here because hinting around it for a few weeks now here and other places (places like Twitter) have obviously not really gotten the point across about how big this is. So, I’ll just come out and say it again…

Everything you know about the “office” metaphor of computing, with files, folders, desktops, etc. is changing. Apple created it. Now they are replacing it. I think the confusing thing for many people is that, this time, they are not setting the paradigm from the top down (desktop to mobile) but from the bottom up (mobile to desktop).

Posted January 28, 2010 at 9:06am || home