http://lowendmac.com/500/macintosh-tv.htmlThat is just *one* Turkey. If there is genius in Apple, it is in the ability to make consumers forget the failures, and only remember the successes.
I remain unconvinced that the iTablet will be a dragon-slayer, and not another giant Apple Turkey buried in the basement at Cupertino.
I keep seeing discussions of how the original iMac was *designed* to easily access the Internet, too. This seems like wishful revisionist history to me. I was supporting CampusMCI Internet in 1994. Windows 3.11 required a third party TCP/IP stack, and most people used a program called "Trumpet Winsock".
Windows 95 had introduced the Network Connection control panel with a built in Microsoft TCP/IP protocol stack, that any modern user of Windows would recognize, more or less, to this day. It was all built into the OS, and relatively easy to configure and use for any kind of TCP/IP connection.
OS Classic, I am a little fuzzy about. I think it was OS 8 and 9 at this point - and there was a PPP control applet and a TCP applet and then you had to configure your dialup applet separately. I know it was NOT easy, it was not inutitive, and it was NOT as reliable. Mac OS Classic was considered a PITA to support for dial-up, Internet connections, at this period of time. And that is how the original iMacs came configured.
Mac went to pains to correct these shortcomings, and improved markedly, but the original iMac was far less well suited to Internet connectivity than even Windows 3.11.
Mac was really still kind of holding onto the AppleTalk network concept at this point in time - although not for long.
