16 thoughts on “Mac promo from 1996”

1. I actually love this video. 🙂 It’s the message we were trying to scream out to the rest of the world as we were sinking into extinction.

2. In 1996 I was 11 😛

   I think Windows 95 and 98 was a great OSes back then until OS X was introduced.

3. I only got through about 6 minutes, but the funniest thing to me is that some things about Windows hasn’t changed, though Window has come a long way.

4. My gosh, is that a Saturday Night Live parody? Who is that bozo? (I can hear Jobs ask…)

5. Is that Ted Cruz?

6. I couldn’t make it 90 seconds.

   I spent much of that 90 seconds trying to imagine if it would sound better with Jony’s accent and pronunciation.

7. I made it to 2 minutes and 57 seconds.
   Wow.

8. Ha, out of interest I posted this up-to-the-minute guide on Mac Kung Fu just a few days ago: http://www.mackungfu.org/should-i-buy-a-mac-or-a-pc-this-xmas –
   10 reasons: Should I buy a Mac or a PC this holiday season?

9. Wow! My left brain is sipping tea and thinking, “Yes, these arguments and points are indeed quite exemplary. I should listen more to this dapper and bespectacled gentleman.” While my right brain’s screaming, “Holy crap this asshole is more PC than John Hodgman!”

10. I’m going to watch every minute of this. I’m just getting off on seeing a working SCSI chain, among other things.

    Also, I want to find out what nursing home that guy’s in now, and go slap him around a bit.

11. He’s actually teaching us how to do things on a PC. Very helpful!

12. I actually did go back and watch the whole thing, I couldn’t help myself. It basically reminded me of the days of defending the Mac and trying to show people how far superior it was. In some ways I miss the old OS.
    When he dragged a bunch of files to the system folder and the finder reported that it had placed them in the correct folders, I thought, ah yes I remember that. What a good idea.

    So many good ideas unfortunately were abandoned along the wayside. Still, overall, things are good. I don’t miss trying to find out which extension is causing problems, for instance.

    When you watch it, I’d like your opinion/thoughts.

13. How is this any different than today’s IBM-centric, Windows-like Apple?

    I really would like to hear from longtime Apple users how you could be a fan of both the 2010 Apple and the 2015 Apple when they are total opposites?

    When Jobs is not there, Apple goes after the business market that he despised because it is huge money, and that corrupts the products. The business-focused Apple then meets Microsoft halfway, making it much easier for Microsoft to clone them. For example, what Apple did to iOS icons with iOS 7 essentially made the Apple app icons Windows-compatible. Porting an iOS app to Windows in 2015 is much easier than it was in 2010, and only 50% of the reasons for that are Microsoft’s work. The rest is Apple’s work. Apple had a lead in interface design and they threw everything out and adopted the fuck-interface-design philosophy of Microsoft, making that race a wash.

    So I think knocking the non-Jobs Apple of the nineties is Nero fiddling while Rome burned. Let`s talk about how Craig Federricci has presided over the 3 most-unstable versions of iOS and the worst version of OS X since 2002. Start there.

14. I can’t make it through 90 seconds of the 2015 Apple Events.

15. Still watching this, but I take back what I said about this guy, because it occurred to me that perhaps this presentation wasn’t meant for consumers, and he’s doing what he was hired to do: explaining the advantages of Macintosh in a sufficiently corporate, yet gentle—almost conciliatory—tone.

    My guess is, he’s not challenging any notional, under-socialized server-room rats who already have their minds made up about computers and women. He’s speaking directly to decision-makers who might see the practicality of having workers undergo less frustration, get a bit more work done, and of having IT waste less time babysitting Windows.

    Does that make sense?

16. Yes, that makes sense. Considering the length of the video it’s probably accurate.
    Focus on the people who head the departments that have to get things done as efficiently as possible and hopefully IT won’t have a choice but to fall in line.

    Kind of what Apple ended up doing in the end.