{"id":655,"date":"2007-06-24T20:18:34","date_gmt":"2007-06-25T03:18:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.macnightowl.com\/2007\/06\/24\/newsletter-394-preview-do-macs-make-sense-for-business\/"},"modified":"2008-03-25T15:00:38","modified_gmt":"2008-03-25T22:00:38","slug":"newsletter-394-preview-do-macs-make-sense-for-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.technightowl.live\/blog\/2007\/06\/newsletter-394-preview-do-macs-make-sense-for-business\/","title":{"rendered":"Newsletter #395 Preview: Do Macs Make Sense for Business?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the very first day the Mac appeared, the critics said it wasn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t a serious personal computer. The graphical user interface meant it was just a plaything for the rich and restless, and that you couldn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t get any serious work done on it. That was the function of the real computer, the one that you manipulated with text commands.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, that argument didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t sit very well when Microsoft adopted many of the same interface niceties. Maybe it was a pale imitation of the original, but the basic concepts, requiring keyboard and mouse, were still present and accounted for.<\/p>\n<p>Yet even when so-called business computers came with point-and-click interfaces, somehow the Mac was still relegated to the category of a toy. It didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t matter that graphic artists embraced Macs for such chores as desktop publishing, digital artwork and movie special effects. You see, a real business computer was supposed to be used for spreadsheets, and databases and that sort of thing. 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