Steve Jobs Macworld 1998 Keynote (Part 7)

Macworld 98 New York

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[macpac22]

like OH MY GAWW OFFICE 98 IS LIKE FABULOUS!

haha that MS dude is hilarious

[xflipaex]

only on the mac version!

[zapzupnz90]

They changed it to make the naming consistent across the whole Mac line: they are all Macs, so Mac had to be in the name.

Prior to the renaming, notebooks were the only products in the Mac lineup that didn't have "Mac" in the name. iMac, Mac mini, Power Mac had it. iBook and PowerBook didn't.

It may have also been tactically to reinforce (at the time of the Intel switch) that the then-new Macs were indeed still the Macs that everyone had come to know (except better, of course).

[zapzupnz90]

No, not really.

Safari could save things offline from the beginning (every major browser has had that feature for AGES), so it's not like it's taken from 1998 to 2011.

Also, Reading List requires an extraordinary backend architecture (iCloud) to store and serve millions upon millions of websites saved to Reading List synced between Macs and iOS devices. Internet Explorer had nothing like that (and didn't get it until Windows 8; Apple had it with iTools and .Mac in 2000 and 2002).

[Max Coplan]

Wait, this IE is just like Reading List (saving offline). Wow, Apple was pretty slow there, it took them over a decade to include that in their own browser.

[debarrb]

MacBooks used to be iBooks. I don't know why they changed it, but yeah, it used to be "i" too.

[Henry Jones]

"it's a pain in the ass"

Yeah. I bet he loves giving other guys a pain in their ass.

[1maxroman]

i in iMac stand for internet? interesting.. i in iPod, iPhone, iPad stand for internet then. What about macBooks?

[Ndev07]

@Marcianow that was their strategy and marketing... because of its success, they stuck with it despite its original i for "internet" meaning... silly, I agree.. but it worked.

[Dan Brown]

Hi, I'm Ben Waldman.... I'm Suuuperr! Thanks for asking!