Apple’s best and worst on Engadget
By Marc Perton
While the rest of the blogosphere was off celebrating April Fool’s Day yesterday, we took the opportunity to commemorate Apple’s 30th birthday (even if Apple itself chose to ignore the holiday). Our feature on Apple’s “good, bad and ugly” products struck, I think, a good balance. We didn’t indulge in fanboy exuberance (well, at least I don’t think we did), and treated the company pretty fairly. And I got a chance to do a writeup of the Lisa, which, to this day, remains one of my favorite computers ever. At some point I really do have to drag my Lisa up from the basement and hook it up to see if it still works. There’s no reason it shouldn’t, despite being over 20 years old. Of course, it won’t run any modern software, but I can always turn it into a web server with a little effort!
While the rest of the blogosphere was off celebrating April Fool’s Day yesterday, we took the opportunity to commemorate Apple’s 30th birthday (even if Apple itself chose to ignore the holiday). Our feature on Apple’s “good, bad and ugly” products struck, I think, a good balance. We didn’t indulge in fanboy exuberance (well, at least I don’t think we did), and treated the company pretty fairly. And I got a chance to do a writeup of the Lisa, which, to this day, remains one of my favorite computers ever. At some point I really do have to drag my Lisa up from the basement and hook it up to see if it still works. There’s no reason it shouldn’t, despite being over 20 years old. Of course, it won’t run any modern software, but I can always turn it into a web server with a little effort!
