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Re:The Original Macintosh: Calculator Construction Set by normloman on Tuesday February 10, 2015 @11:56AM (#9028328)
Attention to details and micromanagement are not the same thing. You can have one without the other (Just hire devoted UI designers and hold them to a high standard).

And before we forget, the first macs failed to take the tech world by storm, and it wasn't until the iPod that Apple became silicon valley's golden boy.

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Re:The Original Macintosh: Calculator Construction Set by agumonkey on Tuesday February 10, 2015 @12:32PM (#9028563)
Are you sure about your last point ? I was a kid so I can't be too certain, but the graphical (photo, movies, a bit of architecture, not 3d though) industry was heavy on Macs quite early on. Even music studio used Mac workstations (with additional audio hardware).
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Re:The Original Macintosh: Calculator Construction Set by normloman on Thursday February 12, 2015 @02:14PM (#9040693)
Macs had success in the education markets and among artists / filmmakers / musicians. That's a small market. Despite their advanced hardware and mature interface, early macs lost to PCs because PCs were cheaper and more open (software could run on any IBM compatible machine rather than just macs).
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Re:The Original Macintosh: Calculator Construction Set by Zelphyr on Tuesday February 10, 2015 @02:06PM (#9029170)
Apple was big in the 80's, no doubt about it, but they were small potatoes compared to the behemoth they are now.
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Re:The Original Macintosh: Calculator Construction Set by agumonkey on Tuesday February 10, 2015 @02:07PM (#9029177)
As their market.
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