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Apple hopes that Mac will differ from Lisa in one important way: popularity. While Lisa was touted last year as a technological marvel, it has been a market dud. The company hoped to sell 50,000 in 1983, but sold fewer than 20,000. The main criticism of Lisa was its $10,000 price...
...temperate climates. It was designed to be an "all-service, all-purpose" uniform, but clerks, mechanics and drill sergeants alike bemoan its uncomfortable cut and slovenly look. It was supposed to be the pride of the Pentagon, but the battle dress uniform (B.D.U.) has been rapidly unraveling as a dud. Or so suggests an internal Army cable...
...parallel between the stormy personal waters Jobs was navigating at the time and some acute growing pains Apple was suffering almost simultaneously. The company's newest addition to the line, the Apple III, went on the market in November 1980 and turned out to be, at first, a thundering dud, what Jobs now characterizes as "an evolutionary product." Apple recalled and repaired the machines, and manufactured better new ones. "A learning experience" is what Jobs terms that parlous period now. Lisa?"a revolutionary product"?will determine just how well Apple has learned its lessons and how tough...
Ever since puberty, you have been a dud, Marian. Where is the childn I befriended? Where is that child? You know what your Mo is? You get a boyfriend and you come alive. For the six months it lasts, you're like Lynda Carter in Wonder Woman, there's nothing you can't do. And when it ends, which it always does, you got nothing left. Suddenly, you're Werner Erhard's wet dream, you know...