Weekly Roundup: the Mac at 30

Aaron Brethorst, January 25, 2014

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


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