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About this siteFor six years, the Internet Nexus served as my technology blog, but I've since started blogging at the SuperSite Blog instead. If you're looking for the blog, please head there. --Paul Sunday, September 05, 2004Joswiak: 'True to What an iMac Has Always Been About'Macworld: "The display tilts from negative-5 to 25 degrees. We found that most people don't end up raising or lowering it. The big thing is the tilt direction, and what we've done here is achieve negative tilt, which is very important, especially if you have kids sitting around a computer, because they tend to be looking up at the computer. And we still have the ability to swivel left and right, but it does it on the entire base; we didn't need to create an arm to do that. There are little skids on the bottom -- this achieves much of the same things [as the G4 iMac] in a different way and, we think, in a better way ...It's probably worth noting the way we approached the goals of the project, have been true to what an iMac has always been about. The soul of an iMac is really four things. Number one, it's all-in-one elegance, the fact that you can just pull it out of the box, plug it in, and get to work -- it's all there, you don't have to figure out how to get the jigsaw puzzle to fit together in the right way. Number two is extreme simplicity. You look at this computer, and you know it's simple. And you guys know better than anyone what the experience is like with iLife and Mac OS X -- it's far simpler than what you can do on a PC. Number three is, it had to be perfect for iLife, perfect for that digital lifestyle, for how you work with your photos and your music and your movies -- that has to be a space that we own. We can't concede that to anybody, and we want the iMac to be the best way to work with the digital lifestyle. And number four is an innovative design, as we've always done, starting from the ground up. Not being constrained to going to [a generic computer manufacturer] and deciding where you put the logo, designing a computer from the ground up to meet the needs of our customers ... Well, let's be realistic [about shipping]. [The middle of September] is when they first start shipping. By definition a ramp means going from zero to whatever full capacity is going to be. On day one, there's all this demand that's built up, and inevitably, there's a shortage. People get excited about our products -- that's good, and in no way do I want to dampen that. ... but the reality is with any new product, it's hard to imagine any example where [a shortage] isn't the case." True enough. [ Posted at 9:23 AM | Permalink ]
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