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by chongli 2616 days ago
It was much worse than that, long before that. Copland, Taligent, and the warehouses full of aging beige boxes. A million different product lines with inscrutable model numbers. Consumers had no clue which Mac to buy.

Then Apple bought Next and Steve Jobs came back and discontinued all of those product lines and all of the dead-end operating system development and set about turning NextStep into Mac OS X. He released the iMac and Apple finally had a recognizable consumer computer for the first time since the 80s.
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tonyedgecombe 2615 days ago
>Consumers had no clue which Mac to buy.

Interestingly I think they may be falling back into that now, the laptop line in particular looks confused to me.

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rchaud 2615 days ago
Same goes for the iPad and iPhone. Never thought I'd see the day when iPhone model names became as meaninglessly inscrutable as Nokia's or Blackberries (e.g. BB Curve 9730).
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Spooky23 2615 days ago
iOS devices are easy.

There’s the ones that you can buy, and the ones that they want to sell.

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