This Old Mac

30 August, 2008 By Holden Scott Came across an interesting article on Abandoned Brands and the communities associated with them. Apparently, there may be a link to these communities and mysticism/religion. Almost like the fact that we were abandoned makes us more prone to focusing on higher powers and the like: something else to believe in now that we were left to hang. Abstract: This research explores the grassroots brand community centered on the Apple Newton, a product that was abandoned by the marketer. Supernatural, ... Read More

24 August, 2008 By Holden Scott Not sure from what year, but an interesting look inside the Apple Manufacturing plant... before they outsourced everything to China and Taiwan. Read More

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23 August, 2008 By Holden Scott Newton Video Guide: Newton OS 2.0 - Info to Go OMP: Newton Video Guide Newton MessagePad Media: Read More

22 August, 2008 By Holden Scott Apple's future concept, the Knowledge Navigator, brought together file sharing, voice-recognition, the Internet, VOIP, multi-touch OS... all in one tablet like device. The video was released in 1987. If studied in detail, there still is nothing like this today, although we are getting closer and closer each year. Knowledge Navigator was based on a concept that John Sculley, former CEO of Apple, penned in his book Odyssey. John imagined a device that could, with ... Read More