For your weekend viewing enjoyment:
But in almost every way that mattered, the Macintosh was right.
Right about how we’d use computers going forward. Right about the
idea that computers needed to be less complicated. Right about the
fact that caring this deeply about both hardware and software
design would make a difference. Though Apple didn’t sell many of
those original Macintoshes, there’s no question it changed
computers forever.On this episode of Version History, we tell the story of the
original Macintosh. David Pierce, Nilay Patel, and Daring
Fireball’s John Gruber explain the strange corporate infighting
that led to the project in the first place, the ways in which the
Macintosh changed over time, and how Jobs and his team drove such
massive hype for the device some people didn’t even want to ship.
Then they debate the device’s true legacy, and whether the
computer or the commercial is the true icon.
