Apple at the time was heading fast for the way of Commodore. Tied to past greatness and completely unable to move their technology into the present.
The OS was being left behind, the systems had all the stylish elegance of a car battery, and all efforts were focused on turning Apple, a great place for artists and designers, into IBM. In short, Apple was failing fast.
Jobs came in, and after wrestling with quickly increasing, unsellable inventory of crap computers (the increasing inventory numbers headlines lots of news during this time period "35 days unsold inventory!" "60 days unsold inventory!"), gave us the original iMac which quite literally restarted Apple's heart.
The OS was being left behind, the systems had all the stylish elegance of a car battery, and all efforts were focused on turning Apple, a great place for artists and designers, into IBM. In short, Apple was failing fast.
Jobs came in, and after wrestling with quickly increasing, unsellable inventory of crap computers (the increasing inventory numbers headlines lots of news during this time period "35 days unsold inventory!" "60 days unsold inventory!"), gave us the original iMac which quite literally restarted Apple's heart.
This: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:IMac_Bondi_Blue.jpg
Replaced This: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e0/Power_Mac...
This: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f7/PowerBook...
Replaced This: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f1/Powerbook...