cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/19159422
It didn’t age well by the 90s tbh
Costs Less? When That Happened?
Submitted 2 months ago by basilisa@lemmy.dbzer0.com to technology@lemmy.world
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altima_neo@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
fartsparkles@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
This slogan was from the 90s (1993/94 maybe?).
Etterra@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Happened in the '80s and '90s, back when Apple was just making Macs for schools. Eventually they left their lane and, well, here we are.
chaosCruiser@futurology.today 2 months ago
Apple was in serious financial trouble, and pivoted to manufacturing premium products instead. Apparently this shift in strategy worked, since the company is still here.
ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 2 months ago
And unfortunately, that shift affected all other manufacturers through copying.
A lot if entry-level or mid-range product are now trying to emulate the look and feel of high-end products at best, and outright disappeared at worst and replaced with other “lifestyle” products. My bluetooth keyboard has silver-painted plastic to make it look like it was made out of aluminium, and ironically is more durable than Apple’s own offerings at the fraction of the price.
A lot of entry-level and mid-range home audio stuff was mostly replaced with Bluetooth speakers, or with soundbars. I’ve never heard a Bluetooth speaker sound as good as non-wireless offerings, all of them sounded horribly artificial, with an EQ that couldn’t be turned off, but would be enough for convincing regular people into it “having bass”. Soundbars, while being way above your average TV speakers, cannot really replace discrete speaker setups, but are better at not upsetting housewives with severe cablephobia.
then_three_more@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Apparently this shift in strategy worked, since the company is still here.
$3,000,000,000,000 understatement.
tal@lemmy.today 2 months ago
The Apple II was Apple’s first mainstream computer. It was relatively-capable compared to contemporary computers, but it wasn’t very cheap.
kagis
www.apple2history.org/…/the-competition-part-2/
Regarding the early systems that I profiled: First of all, each of these other systems were distinct from the original Apple II primarily because they were targeted at a lower price point than the Apple II. The Apple II with 4K sold for nearly $1300; that is about twice the cost of the two competitors that were released the same year (the TRS-80 and the PET). The same applies to the systems released over the next five years as I outlined above; they sold for a low of $299 (VIC-20) and a high of $999 (Atari 800). This was a disadvantage to those who wanted an Apple, but may have legitimized it as a more serious computer.
$1,300 would be $6,747.56 in 2204 dollars.
The Lisa was considerably more expensive:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Lisa
Introductory price: US$9,995 (equivalent to $30,600 in 2023)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macintosh_128K
The Mac 128k (the first Mac model) wasn’t too cheap either:
Introductory price: US$2,495 (equivalent to $7,300 in 2023)
Crashumbc@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Yeah Apple was never cheap. Does more is debatable, but it had an advantage in non business software in early 80s
random_character_a@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Today it’s a cult.
dohpaz42@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I’m not terribly surprised by the mixed reactions to this comment. As an Apple person who owns several Apple products, I can confidently agree with @Random_Character_A@lemmy.world.
A lot of (not all) are elitists and cannot fathom that the quality of Apple products has significantly declined, while the pricing has significantly risen. It’s sad too, because Apple is supposed to mean top-shelf in quality.
LainTrain@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
Costs more. Does less.
It’s simple. Marketing
dust_accelerator@discuss.tchncs.de 2 months ago
Anecdotal, but “does more” is absolutely incorrect these days. Had an Apple believer giving a presentation - HDMI connection to standard projector from iPad just didn’t work. So pull it to a USB thumb drive to put on a proven working laptop (Ubuntu, projector worked directly) and the supposedly FAT formatted drive could not be mounted with some “Spotlight” error.
Wholly unimpressed with the “never just works” of apple nowadays.
Hazzia@infosec.pub 2 months ago
Crazy how a business model that focuses so strongly on creating a self-sustained ecosystem in order to strong arm people into using more apple products creates so many issues with cross-compatibility, isn’t it?
Ilandar@aussie.zone 2 months ago
DON’TBE EVILtakeda@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Looks like Steve Jobs turned things around.
Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Costs less compared to the Vax minicomputers that were prevalent at the time. But even back then there were cheaper alternatives. This was in the 8bit days when the Apple II was pretty dominant. And ironically, there were Apple II compatible third party machines.
jordanlund@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Never aged well, Commodore Amiga cost less and did more from the very start.
turkalino@lemmy.yachts 2 months ago
8 Bit Guy, is that you?
pmc@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
I don’t think he’s much of an Amiga guy, he’s a C64 guy. The words in an Amiga CPU have a few too many bits for the 8 Bit Guy :P
ripcord@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Since it’s not an 8-bit machine, probably not.
AllYourSmurf@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Amiga crew checking in. Now that was an amazing machine.
ICastFist@programming.dev 2 months ago
For anyone that never heard of, or doesn’t know much about the Amiga, I highly recommend this series on Ars Technica
On part 5, it shows that the Amiga 1000 retailed for around 1,300 dollars, while then current Apple computers cost over 2k dollars.