Hands-on with the flop that changed Apple forever

Hands-on with the flop that changed Apple forever

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Apple’s Mac­in­tosh, released in 1984, is cel­e­brat­ed for ush­er­ing in a new era of user-friend­ly com­put­ing. But! The Mac owes a lot to its less­er-known, old­er sis­ter Lisa. Here’s how the Lisa, while seen as a flop today, used clever inter­face design to wel­come every­one into the per­son­al com­put­er era. Though as new tech­nolo­gies like AR, VR, and AI chat­bots arrive, are we final­ly leav­ing Lisa’s lega­cy behind? #Apple #Tech­nol­o­gy #His­to­ry

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00:00 Intro
00:37 Com­put­ers of the 1970’s
01:13 The Begin­ning of GUIs
01:40 Xerox PARC’s Alto Computer
02:10 Oth­er Tech Inspi­ra­tions for Apple
02:42 Goals behind the Apple Lisa
03:20 Hands-on with a Lisa
04:35 Devel­op­ing the Lisa with Bill Atkinson
06:22 Intro­duc­ing Macintosh
07:06 Lisa vs Macintosh
07:24 Count­down of switch­ing appli­ca­tions on a Macintosh
08:15 What the ‘Desk­top Metaphor’ means now
09:28 Final thoughts with Bill Atkinson 

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