{"id":1002,"date":"2008-06-15T18:30:19","date_gmt":"2008-06-16T01:30:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.macnightowl.com\/?p=1002"},"modified":"2008-06-14T18:34:32","modified_gmt":"2008-06-15T01:34:32","slug":"newsletter-446-preview-apple-looks-ahead-while-microsoft-looks-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.technightowl.live\/blog\/2008\/06\/newsletter-446-preview-apple-looks-ahead-while-microsoft-looks-back\/","title":{"rendered":"Newsletter #446 Preview: Apple Looks Ahead, While Microsoft Looks Back"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Apple has a long history of spinning on a dime. A couple of years back, for example, they tossed out a best-selling design for the iPod nano and introduced an all-new version. Almost any other company on the planet would have pushed the existing configuration until well past its prime and even beyond.<\/p>\n<p>Upgrades over the years to the iMac line have thrown away the mold, and delivered very different and often unexpected case designs. Take a look at the pear-shaped original, its successor with the articulated arm and lamp-style base, and the current iteration, which is basically a slimline computer display that just happens to have a powerful personal computer inside.<\/p>\n<p>Whatever you thought about the Cube, it was surely a pace-setting product that I said, at the time, belonged in a museum. Today, it is considered a failed product, but one where Apple tested and prodded and tried to deliver something that was as much a work of art as a functional computing appliance.<\/p>\n<p>No, I haven&#8217;t forgotten how the Cube resembles its NeXT-based forebear.<\/p>\n<p>Even after the Cube died, Apple couldn&#8217;t let go. 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