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Ask HN: How will Apple celebrate the Mac's 40th anniversary?

2 pointsby jonathanzufiover 1 year ago
They did a killer microsite in 2014 highlighting a single product every year since 1984. There was a section called ‘Your first Mac’, where Apple asked you to state what your first Mac was and what you used it for and that data was rolled into a poll. Tim Cook, Craig Federighi and Phil Schiller gave interviews to the press claiming “the Mac keeps going forever”.<p>The quality of the photos was phenomenal and they covered these products for each of the years:<p>1984: Macintosh 1985: Macintosh XL 1986: Macintosh Plus 1987: Macintosh II 1988: Macintosh IIx 1989: Macintosh Portable 1990: Macintosh LC 1991: PowerBook 1992: Macintosh Quadra 950 1993: Macintosh TV 1994: PowerBook 540c 1995: Power Macintosh 8500 1996: PowerBook 1400 1997: Twentieth Anniversary Macintosh 1998: iMac 1999: Power Mac G4 2000: iBook 2001: PowerBook G4 2002: iMac 2003: Power Mac G5 2004: iBook G4 2005: iMac G5 2006: MacBook Pro 2007: iMac 2008: MacBook Air 2009: iMac 2010: MacBook Air 2011: MacBook Pro 2012: MacBook Pro with Retina display 2013: iMac 2014: Mac Pro<p>You can see it in the Wayback Machine at https:&#x2F;&#x2F;web.archive.org&#x2F;web&#x2F;20140124112428&#x2F;http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.apple.com&#x2F;30-years&#x2F;<p>How will they celebrate the 40th anniversary coming up next week on the 24th?

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coderatlargeover 1 year ago
Maybe they could do it with an epic bug bash.<p>If I export my mail from mail.app and re-import it , I lose mail every time.<p>Spotlight has gone into a crash loop suddenly and never recovered.<p>Time Machine fails at double digit percent of times that it runs.<p>All this on a 1-yr old m2 MacBook Air with all updates installed and only one piece of non-apple software installed (TurboTax).<p>The state of affairs is pretty shocking to me on the quality front for a product supposedly this mature.
orionblastarover 1 year ago
The Amiga has mini Amiga ARM based ARMIGA to celebrate their PC. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ami64.com&#x2F;product-page&#x2F;armiga-project-amiga" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ami64.com&#x2F;product-page&#x2F;armiga-project-amiga</a><p>But I don&#x27;t see any Mac 68K PowerPC ARM clones.