January 24, 1984.
That $2500 price tag in 1984 is equivalent to $7500 today. That’s a mighty investment.
I got one. My father worked for IBM at the time, he wasn’t happy about it but even back then I knew it was the future. We got it at Fingers furniture at Sharpstown mall of all places.
Wow. Funny that they sold computers. But I can imagine Apple may have been forced to some unconventional partnerships at the time.
I was actually thinking about the iMac the other day. I’d say the iMac led a resurgence that eventually brought us the iPhone.
Truly staggering to think it would be like plopping down $7,500 for a PC today.
But it did come with that massive 9” B/W display and I only have a measly 7+ inch display in my pocket today.
/s
Now if you would have invested that $2,495 in Apple stock instead you would have around $6.3 million today. And we could be posting about the next big donation to UH from Norbert.
Steve Jobs was indeed a genius.
gates on the other hand is a thief. To think that he got away and still gets away with it has to be the biggest theft in mankind’s history.
Agree he was bright, tech savy business man with vision.
gates on the other hand is a thief
Huh ?
Hey, I’m not a windows fan , but Gates was/is genius too.
Are you calling him a thief for what ? Xerox
graphical interface that both he a Jobs saw at the Xerox meeting ?
But if I didn’t buy a Mac, would Apple still be in business?
My first computer was a TRS-80 with a cassette drive. I also had an IBM PC. Using programs like word star made me see that the Mac was the way to go.
BTW, you know how I found out about the Mac? I read a giant article about it in Byte magazine. Yes, that’s how I got info back in the day. Wish I still had that issue.
100% thief. Ask anyone in the computer industry and they will tell you the same thing. gates stole window from Jobs. Window was not the only thing that he stole from Jobs. Apple was not legally savy enough to fight this theft. gates bought his way out of the justice system for that we can applaud the thief.
He stole DOS too.
I’m in the computer industry and I don’t agree with your statement he was a thief.
Please read this link, and then let’s discuss.
Interesting opinion piece. If gates was so innocent of malpractice then why was there a settlement in that case?
Why did gates invest $150m’s with no voting access?
This is an opinion piece from slidebeam. Is it the same slidebeam that is competing against power point owned by…gates?
I read different story about xerox too. I can’t remember if microsoft tried to bail them out in diffetent occasions.
Gates was nonprincess. He did make someccritical mistakes. For what I have read, talked to people from Compaq and others Apple got robbed by gates and…others.
Are you saying settlement implies guilt? Does that apply in all cases or just here?
Care to explain?
I have a pretty good idea of which rabbit hole you want to take us but go ahead.
I’m asking a question and it’s self explanatory. There is no rabbit hole.
Does settlement imply guilt in all cases or just here?
Every case is different you and everybody knows this. By not having voting shares it explains quite a bit. Don’t you think?
I don’t think settlement implies guilt ever, including here.
I would agree with the “non voting share” clause implies the opposite.
Interesting. Agree most of the time; but what about going down the faux hole ? Or take that PM if inappropriate discussion here.