By John Gruber
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Al Jigong Billings, regarding my short piece earlier on Woz’s 1977 description of the Apple II:
I think @gruber misunderstands “inexpensive” since MacBooks cost double [those of its] competition.
Let’s put aside arguments about whether Macs are, today, price competitive against similarly-equipped PCs. I’ll just point out that it’s no coincidence that Apple’s Mac business has thrived financially as the prices have gone lower. You can get a MacBook Air for $999 — that’s pretty amazing in the context of historical MacBook/PowerBook pricing.
Woz wrote, “To me, a personal computer should be small, reliable, convenient to use and inexpensive.” He wrote that in 1977 about a very different machine, but that’s a perfect description of the iPad.
★ Friday, 25 May 2012