Obviously the big news of the past week was the 30th anniversary of the Mac, introduced at an Apple shareholder meeting on January 24, 1984. Apple put together a very unexpected, beautiful retrospective on the Mac, which you can find below. Meanwhile, MacWorld has a brief but interesting look at the Mac at 30 from Phil Schiller, Bud Tribble, and others.
Meanwhile, Nintendo, a company that has regularly been compared to Apple in the past, is seemingly almost as beleaguered as Apple was in the mid-1990s. With the Wii U not showing sales figures nearly as good as the Wii was, or the 3DS/2DS platform with the DS, talk is inevitably turning back to Nintendo developing games for other platforms, specifically Apple's. Nintendo President Satoru Iwata recently said "We are thinking about a new business structure...we are naturally studying how smart devices can be used to grow the game-player business. It’s not as simple as enabling Mario to move on a smartphone." If I had to place a bet on it, I think Nintendo's going to turn out more like Sega than Apple, which makes me sad.
Until next time,
Aaron
What We're Reading
- 30 Years
- Apple executives on the Mac at 30: 'The Mac keeps going forever.'
- Nintendo Mulls New Business Model After Forecasting Loss
- Cycript
- Introduction to libclang
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