September 1999: Steve & Jony: A Fast & Furious Film

Welcome back to Memory Protection! September '99 was a slow month for Apple news, so Josh & Matt decided to tackle a subject that they have been thinking about since May. They talk Macintosh, the iMac & the iPad. 3 variations on a theme, 3 attempts to redefine what computers are and who they are made for.

This is a fun episode, specs have been known.

Listen:

Show Notes

Follow-Up

• Copland
• Tim Cook introduces the Apple Watch
  • It was 2014
• Apple Studio Display & Emac:

Hot Cocoa

• Apple G4 ROM Block for G3 Powermacs
  • Apple's G4 ROM Block Will Only Serve To Lose Customers
  • Why the Blocked G4 Uproar
    • Apple was sued at one point for promising PPC upgrades it never produced-so they stopped promising them.
  • G4 Uproar Continues
    • “Apple does not endorse third party after-market processor upgrades in any Apple Macintosh computer.”
• The longest internet streaming event EVER!
• New iMac Specs
  • "Specs have been known..." - Matt
• Stephen King's F13
  • Trailer
• Google comes out of beta

Topics

Apple's constant re-imagining of what and who computers are for.

• Apple changes it's logo from the 6 colors rainbow to the solid color still in use today
  • Though it may return to some products this year?
• Apple's Commercials:
  • 1984 Macintosh Commercial
  • Think Different Commercial
• ComputerLover™

Recommendations:

Josh:

• Book: Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
• Game: Age of Empires II

Matt:

• The Sega Dreamcast