@recurvebowyer
As someone who played with soldering irons, and who carried a calculator in my pocket for many of my school years???
Apple was more human over technology.
Apple was not fifth avenue, it was just that good technology was expensive up until recently. Bad technology for it's own sake was cheap.
Apple is now turning out Unix supercomputers, and they are it's most popular product, the iPhone. What has changed is that Apple has added more polish and fancy fifth avenue design than ever and the cost of production has dropped.
Computers could only afford to be badly designed and disposable whilst people believed they were not worthy of the technology.
Mobile phones were the tipping point because a phone is considered to be something people should understand, and should work well, and should not require an expert to keep running.
Apple's design met a market expectation, and the blinkers came off the people.
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