Path: utzoo!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!emory!gatech!mcnc!taco!hobbes!kdarling From: kdarling@hobbes.ncsu.edu (Kevin Darling) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy Subject: Re: Apple Message-ID: <1991Mar18.010232.16669@ncsu.edu> Date: 18 Mar 91 01:02:32 GMT References: <1991Mar17.212322.15105@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu> Sender: news@ncsu.edu (USENET News System) Organization: North Carolina State University Lines: 26 In <1991Mar17.212322.15105@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu> rjc@geech.ai.mit.edu (Ray Cromwell) writes: > Check out this article from the 3-15-91 issue of the Wall Street Journal. > "Another proposed product...would represent Apple's entry into consumer >electronics. This `living room' system combines a compact-disk player and a >stripped down Macintosh (minus disk drives, a keyboard and a monitor)." > > It looks like Apple's definition of innovation is stealing ideas from > other companies. First Xerox, now Commodore. Doesn't the described > device above sound exactly like CDTV? No, it sounds exactly like CD-I, just as CDTV does. True innovation is pretty rare everywhere these days ;-). But I admit to being surprised that Apple would go into consumer electronics. Maybe the sales of under-$1000 Macs convinced them there was a market? > "visual and text content of a specially made CD and would pit Apple against > Ninetendo, Inc., for the loyalty of the world's electronic entertainment Yah, it was interesting to read in Computer Shopper just recently, that Apple keeps a close eye on Microsoft, IBM, and also game-machine makers. Makes sense; if all those 68K game machines out there suddenly could be expanded into inexpensive and nice home systems (as some makers proposed), then they could wrap up a lot of the supposedly reincarnated "home" market. Thx for the WSJ quotes! - kev