[Info-vax] Maybe a bit OT, maybe not.. in any case an interesting article

[JF Mezei]

Richard B. Gilbert wrote:

> In a career spanning almost forty years, I managed to get about four 
> hours of "face time" with a Mac.

Facetime is now a trademark owned by Apple ... you can't use it unless
you own a Mac, iPhone or iPad :-)


> It appeared, to me, that the graphic arts people loved the Mac and no 
> one else cared!

The user base has exploded in recent years to include many different
types, including normal people, techies (due to Unix inside) and even
lawyers.

In fact, graphic artists are not too happy with Apple moving to mass
market and abandoning its former niches.

The lighted Apple logo is everywhere these days. Go to a Starbucks and
you'll see plenty of yuppies sporting a lighted apple logo on their
aluminium laptops.

This is a bit reminiscent of the short live period in the mid 1980s
where Digital started to break out of the scientific appls and started
to get a lot of traction in business and other environments before the
success go to its head and they priced themselves out of the markets
they had just begin to succeed in.