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...claim it must expand its market share “or die.” Its new operating system, OS X, is the sleekest, most stable, most intuitive consumer OS ever made. Every reviewer in the computer trade press swoons over its hardware—the iBook, the Titanium PowerBook, and especially the new iMac. And its software strategy, built around the Macintosh as a “digital hub,” has produced a string of successful, free multimedia applications like iTunes and iPhoto. The result: despite a meager market share of 4.5 percent, Apple, like Dell, actually...
Rather than give his O.K., he went home from work early that day and summoned Ive, the amiable genius who also designed the original iMac, the other-worldly iPod music player, the lightweight but heavy-duty titanium PowerBook and the ice-cube-inspired Cube desktop, to name but a few of his greatest hits. As they walked through the quarter-acre vegetable garden and apricot grove of Jobs' wife Laurene, Jobs sketched out the Platonic ideal for the new machine. "Each element has to be true to itself," Jobs told Ive. "Why have a flat display if you're going...
...plastic dolls were in attendance last week when Steve Jobs showed off the iBook's smaller, wiser exterior on Apple's Cupertino, Calif., campus. After the runaway success of his superslim titanium G4 Powerbook, it seems Jobs has finally figured out what the public wants in a laptop computer. The new iBook looks and feels very much like a titanium Powerbook that went through a compactor and got drenched in milky-white plastic. This is not a bad thing. The newcomer is 1.3 in. thick--a mere 0.3 in. deeper than the titanium model, yet has shed about...
...They drop miniscule hints, like "think titanium powerbook. It's as big as that." Meanwhile, rumors start spreading virally on the Mac loyalist websites. It's going to be a widescreen iMac, says one. No, they're going to announce a nationwide chain of Apple boutiques, argues another. Now you're in a state of hyped-up curiousity. And there's nothing better suited to Jobs' dance of the seven veils than a room of hyped-up, curious people...
...maybe the scaled-back nature of the show means more than that. Perhaps Apple is tentatively reaching the conclusion that it doesn't matter how much hoopla gets thrown up around a product: it will rise and fall on its own merits. The G4 cube and the G4 titanium Powerbook were launched with equal mystery and equal fanfare, six months apart. Both looked eminently cool when Jobs pulled back the veil. Yet the cube tanked tremendously, tearing a huge hole in Apple's year 2000 profits, while the Powerbook sold like lemonade during a rolling blackout, driving Apple...