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Copycat, Copycat (7/15/98)
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It's no big secret that Apple's innovations are frequently adopted (or, say, "ripped off") by other companies over time until eventually the appropriated element becomes a standard. Apple introduces the QuickTake, the first consumer-level digital camera, and now there are dozens of the things on the market. The Newton paved the way for the Palm Pilot and Windows CE devices. The PowerBook 5xx series had this cool thing called a trackpad, and now it's hard to find a laptop of any kind without one. The Mac was the first mainstream computer to introduce a standard 3.5" floppy drive; the iMac may be the first to get rid of it. Etc., etc., etc.
So it's not terribly surprising to see O'Grady's PowerPage discuss a Windows CE clone of Apple's revolutionary (and now discontinued) eMate. The eMate, as you probably recall, was a lightweight laptop-handheld hybrid that had a distinctive clamshell design and was intended to be a low-cost portable computer for educational use. Well, when you see the photo of the Dreamwriter IT by NTS Computer Systems over at the PowerPage, we think you'll notice something awfully familiar about this "affordable portable educational computer."
We think the computer industry as a whole should honor Apple by referring to the company as "Apple Computer: Research and Development for the Rest of Us."
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 | | The above scene was taken from the 7/15/98 episode: July 15, 1998: Apple's done it again, as it pulls off a hat trick and beats Wall Street's quarterly financial estimates for the third time in a row. Meanwhile, backup and storage options for the iMac continue to grow, and it was only a matter of time before someone cloned the eMate...
Other scenes from that episode: 856: Pinch Us, We're Dreaming (7/15/98) Well, there's no question as to what the big news is today: Apple stunned Wall Street, the mainstream media, the naysayers, and even the Mac faithful by posting a $101 million profit for Q3 1998. That makes this the third consecutive quarter in which Apple not only posted a profit, but also exceeded the analysts' expectations... 857: Peripherals Galore (7/15/98) Your friendly neighborhood AtAT staff saw some neat iMac-compatible storage devices at the Expo last week. First, there's the one that everyone's been hearing about-- Imation's SuperDisk drive, which reads and writes its own 120 MB disks, as well as standard 3.5" floppies...
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