Macworld: what a difference a decade makes
Stevemas (that's Macworld to you) is just around the corner and the Mac web can hardly wait. What will Apple wow us with this time around? A true video iPod? New displays with built in iSights? Only Steve knows for sure, however, let's cast our gaze into Apple's past for a moment. Let's go all the way back to January 1997.
Picture it: San Francisco, early January 1997. Alanis Morissette was playing on the radio, though ironically enough her song 'Ironic' wasn't ironic at all. Just last month Apple announced that they had acquired NeXT. During the Keynote Gil Amelio announced that Steve Jobs would be returning to the fold. People were happy right? Well, I am sure some people were but this Milwaukee Journal Sentinel article (Find Articles seems to be a big fan of pop ups, so fair warning) paints a different picture.
Mac users were worried that Apple would be abandoning the Macintosh OS for the Unix based NeXT OS and that their current machines would be rendered useless. They were right, OS X is based on NeXT, but luckily for Mac users it took Apple a very long time to get OS X out the door. It is interesting, though, to see the Apple faithful a little anxious about having Steve Jobs back at Apple, since now everyone is afraid that Steve might actually leave Apple at some point.
