On Oct 23, 2010, at 12:21 PM, objectwerks inc wrote:
>>>>> And is Apple proposing to do away with this? NO. Apple is adding in new
>>>>> options.
>>>>
>>>> Kinda like when they added the CD drive, but still kept the floppy drive.
>>>>
>>>> Oh, wait...
>>>
>>> You mean the CD drives that showed up, I think, with the Quadras and
>>> the floppy that was killed by the iMac? Around 6 years later?
>>
>> No, I surely don't mean those CD drives. Those CD drives weren't writeable
>> devices.
>>
>> If you reconsider the time line between when optical drives arrived that
>> users could use to actually store and exchange their own stuff, vs. when
>> floppies (which users had been using for this purpose for years) were
>> yanked out of the product line, you will find that this six years goes to...
>> um... NEGATIVE THREE YEARS. The original 1998 iMac only came with a CD-ROM.
>> The CD-RW wasn't introduced until the Early 2001 iMac. A truly
>> user-hostile decision. :-(
>
> I don't know. I bought a bondi blue iMac the first day they were for sale. I
> never had an issue with a missing floppy or lack of CDR drive. I rarely used
> the floppy on my previous Macs (Mac 9600 back to Mac Plus with many in
> between )
> to store data either.
Still, the point abides: you cannot assume Steve always giveth replacements as
he taketh away capabilities.
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