11/28/2023 0 Comments Apple newton clamshell![]() One thing I did want to point out was I think what you have listed for the Power Macintosh 6100 (1994) and Performa 6400 (1996) need to be swaped. ![]() ![]() Interesting and a great display of how they floundered in the mid 90’s. I have to agree with the statements above. Sorry to vent, but there’s a lot of inaccuracies here. The straight line between the eMac (originally aimed at education) and the Mac Mini is tenuous at best, whereas the indirect connection between the Mac Mini and the Apple TV should be much more obvious. There should be references of the Apple Network Server and Apple Workgroup Server connect to the Xserve, if nothing else. Also, what’s with the dotted lines between the TAM, the Cube and the Xserve? That makes no sense whatsoever. The Lisa should also have at least two versions represented, the original Lisa with the Twiggy drive, and the later dual-drive Lisa 2. The Apple III should be related to the Apple II line, not as a precursor to the Lisa. The Mac XL descended from the Lisa after the Mac was launched, and that’s missing as well. Also missing from the timeline is the Apple II+ (between the original II and the IIe), which sported floating point BASIC in ROM, as opposed to the integer BASIC of the original Apple II. Following this theme, considering that all iterations of the iPod are represented, there should be an additional four revisions of the Newton shown between the MessagePad 110 and the eMate (120, 130, 2000, 2100). The Newton platform should be represented as ‘coming out of nowhere’ just as the iPod did. To imply that the original Newton MessagePad (actually labeled as the Newton NotePad upon release) has a dotted-line ascendency from the PowerBook Duo is pure folly. Sorry to be a nitpicker, but… there are some glaring omissions and a bunch of outright errors. It’s an interesting infographic, to be sure. Do my connections make sense? Does a pattern emerge that implies where Apple will go next? There’s a lot to take in, but I’m dying to know what you think. The above image is tiny, so head to Scribd to see it in full, especially as a PDF download. I’m tired, I haven’t done much thinking, other than to notice that Apple’s four product lines really came together perfectly in 2001, just in time to launch the iPod from a position of strength. So I decided to chart how various products superceded others in Apple’s history, and start to think about new implications. The images involved are of every major design revision, not necessarily model revision, that Apple has made in its 30 year history. I was inspired to do it by this chronological sort done by Edwin Tofslie that Fake Steve linked to last night. That’s why I’ve created the above map, which charts, near as I can tell, the evolution of Apple’s entire product family from the Apple I to the iPhone. Unfortunately, quarterly reports and individual actions can be totally misleading. Too often, we dissect minute details of a company’s everyday actions looking for signs of health or strategy.
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