How the iMac Saved Apple

Re:How the iMac Saved Apple by philistine on Wednesday August 16, 2023 @11:22AM (#37148498)

Your opinion doesn’t change the fact that USB was niche before Apple went all in on USB. When people give praise to Apple for making something mainstream that’s all they mean. Apple has a tendency to set trends and be rewarded for that.

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Re:How the iMac Saved Apple by green_leaves on Wednesday August 16, 2023 @11:46AM (#37148871)

Check my other comment for data and arguments. USB was already pretty much standard in new PCs and all kind of peripherals were available many months before iMac release. By the time the iMac was released the yearly computer sales were in the 90 million range >90% PCs, easily were 10s of millions of PCs USB equipped by Aug-1998. I find it hard to justify that a computer that sold 5 million units over 3 years made USB mainstream.

https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2001/04/19Apple-Ships-5-Milli...

Edit typo.

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Re:How the iMac Saved Apple by detourdog on Wednesday August 16, 2023 @08:48PM (#37155785)

There were no/barely any working PC devices because the hardware is only half the battle the rest is software.

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Re:How the iMac Saved Apple by green_leaves on Saturday August 19, 2023 @05:23AM (#37186995)

Windows 95 OSR2 got official USB support in Aug97.

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Re:How the iMac Saved Apple by detourdog on Sunday August 20, 2023 @12:14PM (#37200505)

Was that 1.1. I feel like USB didn’t count until version 1.1.

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