Newest Apple Museum Claims To Be 'Biggest and Most Complete' With 1,600 Exhibits (9to5mac.com) 43
An anonymous reader quotes a report from 9to5Mac: Apple Museum of Poland is now open, boasting to be the "biggest and most complete" collection in the world. With over 1,600 exhibits, the museum is the result of years of dedication from Polish collector and architect Jacek Lupina and spans the company's 46-year history. The Apple Museum, located in a former metalworking factory in Warsaw, features a replica of the Apple 1 at its entrance. Released in 1976, the Apple 1 was the first personal computer that Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak sold. Additionally, the motherboard of the museum's Apple 1 replica includes a signature from Steve Wozniak himself.
Lupina's goal is to showcase how far the company has come and how much things have changed in over four decades. [...] While there's a lot to show, the Apple Museum isn't holding all exhibits at once as it is rotating subjects periodically. The collection exhibits Apple, Macintosh, and NeXT computers as well as iPhones, iPods, and iPads. Also, on the walls, there are vintage advertisements like the well-known "Think Different" campaign from 1997.
Lupina's goal is to showcase how far the company has come and how much things have changed in over four decades. [...] While there's a lot to show, the Apple Museum isn't holding all exhibits at once as it is rotating subjects periodically. The collection exhibits Apple, Macintosh, and NeXT computers as well as iPhones, iPods, and iPads. Also, on the walls, there are vintage advertisements like the well-known "Think Different" campaign from 1997.
Hooray! (Score:3)
Re: (Score:2)
They have round corners. You're just being mean to the round corners by telling them they're not really corners. Meanie.
Re: (Score:2)
They have round corners. You're just being mean to the round corners by telling them they're not really corners. Meanie.
damnit, you're right! I'll hand in my iPhone until I'm worthy of it once again.
Re: (Score:2)
el O el (Score:1)
Possibly the least interesting tech news of all time.
Apple has a museum now? How gauche
Re: (Score:1)
Wait a minute? 46 year history? (Score:3)
It seems like the people there confuse "Apple Computer" with "Apple", two very distinct companies. The former famously developed and sold computers with excellent support for customers modifying them while the later sells design pieces where even consumable parts cannot be easily replaced by the user.
A good example for the companies being distinct is that "Apple Computer" famously uses a rainbow as a logo to demonstrate the colour capabilities of their early computers. The other "Apple" instead is known for avoiding colour whenever possible.
Re: (Score:3)
Mod parent +1 Funny!
As a diehard Apple 2 fanboy that is both a hilarious and accurate summary of old Apple vs new Apple.
IMHO Apple jumped the shark when they started soldering in RAM and SSDs in their MBPs. How much more anti-consumer can you get?
Re: (Score:2)
Mod parent +1 Funny!
As a diehard Apple 2 fanboy that is both a hilarious and accurate summary of old Apple vs new Apple.
IMHO Apple jumped the shark when they started soldering in RAM and SSDs in their MBPs. How much more anti-consumer can you get?
And funny how many other Computer OEMs quickly followed suit. Like they always have.
Re: (Score:2)
IMHO Apple jumped the shark when they started soldering in RAM and SSDs in their MBPs. How much more anti-consumer can you get?
Soldering is not inherently bad. It shrinks the motherboard package and increases the reliability of the connections.
The problem is that they underspec most components and charge a giant premium for the specs you should be buying if you want the computer to last. That's planned obsolescence. If not pre-purchase obsolescence when their base models still have only 8GB of RAM and 256GB of storage.
Re: (Score:2)
IMHO Apple jumped the shark when they started soldering in RAM and SSDs in their MBPs. How much more anti-consumer can you get?
Soldering is not inherently bad. It shrinks the motherboard package and increases the reliability of the connections.
The problem is that they underspec most components and charge a giant premium for the specs you should be buying if you want the computer to last. That's planned obsolescence. If not pre-purchase obsolescence when their base models still have only 8GB of RAM and 256GB of storage.
Apple hardly ever underspecs components.
Everyone accidently does it once in awhile. But I am talking about chronic and deliberate underspeccing as a blatant Cost-Reduction tactic.
You must have Apple confused with Dell, Microsoft and Acer. Maybe more; but those are the ones that should come to mind!
Re: (Score:2)
Until recently, they offered a 128GB laptop model. For most owners in actual usage, it means not enough storage to install an OS update. They are still offering 8GB of RAM after it being the baseline for how many years? They're trying to sell 10-year computers with baseline specs that will last maybe 5 years.
Re: (Score:2)
Until recently, they offered a 128GB laptop model. For most owners in actual usage, it means not enough storage to install an OS update. They are still offering 8GB of RAM after it being the baseline for how many years? They're trying to sell 10-year computers with baseline specs that will last maybe 5 years.
Underspeccing components, which results in premature hardware failures, and generally affects the reliability of a product, regardless of other options like RAM or Storage Capacity, is entirely different from offering baseline models with what some Users would find inadequate.
BTW, I used my 2012 MacBook Pro quite happily for about ten years before I decided to Upgrade the 4 GB RAM and 500 GB HDD. I Upgraded not because things were slow; but because I was afraid the DIMMs were going to become unobtainable or
Jumping the expandability Shark (Score:3)
IMHO Apple jumped the shark when they started soldering in RAM and SSDs in their MBPs. How much more anti-consumer can you get?
Steve Jobs jumped the shark already with the original MacIntosh, trying to forbid any expandability in it and the designer needing to come up with ways to sneak in the "Diagnostic port" (an bus expansion slot) and make the memory expandable [folklore.org].
Note that Steve Jobs got thrown out of apple in 1985, then:
- 1986 marks the launch of the Macintosh Plus which had socketed RAM (SIMM)
- 1987 saw the return of colour in Mac products with the Macintosh II, as well as an officially supported expansion bus (NuBus).
Steve Job
Re: (Score:3)
The iPhone was launched under Steve Jobs tenure (after first failing with the Apple Newton, Apple needed to steal the idea from Palm and Handspring for finally making a device that doesn't suck),
I agreed with you up to here. The Newton's biggest problem wasn't the tech, but rather the timing and the size. Its cancelation predated availability of 802.11 wireless Internet by two years and GPRS by three years, and it wasn't portable enough to carry in your pocket (being comparable in size to an iPad Mini).
Palm was basically a straight-up knock-off of Newton, just smaller and with worse handwriting recognition [wikipedia.org] and less expandability. If WiFi and cellular data networking had existed at the time, we'd
PDA expandability. (Score:2)
You hate the iPhone because of its lack of expandability, while praising Palm
I think you're missing the point I was making:
- Main point: Palm like all other PDA had vibrant ecosystems of 3rd party apps, while at the same time iPhone was initially supposed to be web apps only for 3rd party devs, no SDK.
- Also, by that point in time even Palm's own devices had already managed to feature slots to expand either storage or functionality for quite some time.
Basically, everyone else in the PDA market attempts to give some freedom to tinker to their users, whereas Steve Jobs
Re: (Score:2)
You hate the iPhone because of its lack of expandability, while praising Palm
I think you're missing the point I was making: - Main point: Palm like all other PDA had vibrant ecosystems of 3rd party apps, while at the same time iPhone was initially supposed to be web apps only for 3rd party devs, no SDK.
That part, I agree with.
Basically, everyone else in the PDA market attempts to give some freedom to tinker to their users, whereas Steve Jobs thinks everything Apple produces must absolutely be an appliance and have the exact expandability and hackability of a toaster.
Pretty sure he doesn't think anything anymore (R.I.P.), but other than that, this part, I also agree with this.
Palm was basically a straight-up knock-off of Newton, just smaller and with worse handwriting recognition [wikipedia.org]
Historically, the team that eventually came up with the Palm Pilot started by making Graffiti, a replacement for the handwriting engine of, among other, the Apple Newton, because that one couldn't recognise handwriting well (a limitation of the computation power one could cram within a tablet back then), and Graffiti much simpler "gesture"/jot based approach was simpler to recognise, and still not too complex to learn.
The Newton didn't recognize handwriting well *at* *first*. It was getting pretty good by the time it was discontinued. But IIRC, the main reason they came up with Graffiti is because it let them avoid some of Apple's patents on handwriting recognition. And it turns out that they basically stole Graffiti from Xerox [arstechnica.com], so....
I would hardly call the resulting success "worse". But it's a matter of taste.
Worse in terms of handwriting usability (at least c
PalmOS experiences (Score:2)
{...} whereas Steve Jobs thinks everything Apple produces must absolutely be an appliance and have the exact expandability and hackability of a toaster.
Pretty sure he doesn't think anything anymore (R.I.P.), but other than that, this part, I also agree with this.
Though sometimes given the current persistance of these ideas at Apple, one might wonder whether he's truly dead... or did he manage to transfer some of his brain into Tim Cook....
But IIRC, the main reason they came up with Graffiti is because it let them avoid some of Apple's patents on handwriting recognition.
Given the timing of the work of Jeff Hawkins (very early went toward simple character recognition as far back as the PalmPrint whereas most other pushed for complex word recognition), Apple's release of the Newton, and Palm's release of Graffiti before even starting on the Pilot, I doubt getting away from Apple was really the main
Re: (Score:2)
IMHO Apple jumped the shark when they started soldering in RAM and SSDs in their MBPs. How much more anti-consumer can you get?
Steve Jobs jumped the shark already with the original MacIntosh, trying to forbid any expandability in it and the designer needing to come up with ways to sneak in the "Diagnostic port" (an bus expansion slot) and make the memory expandable [folklore.org].
Note that Steve Jobs got thrown out of apple in 1985, then:
- 1986 marks the launch of the Macintosh Plus which had socketed RAM (SIMM)
- 1987 saw the return of colour in Mac products with the Macintosh II, as well as an officially supported expansion bus (NuBus).
Steve Jobs return to Apple in 1997, and the first iMac was launched in 1998 prompting the return to a device where Steve expected the users to only plug USB devices in.
The iPhone was launched under Steve Jobs tenure (after first failing with the Apple Newton, Apple needed to steal the idea from Palm and Handspring for finally making a device that doesn't suck), and not only it was not expandable hardware-wise (at a time when Psions and Visors had expansion modules and virtually every other non-Apple device since has at least supported SD flash memory), the initial plan was to require third party developers only make web apps for it (despite the already existing success of EPOC, Symbian and PalmOS mobile ecosystems).
Steve Jobs *IS* the Apple's shark.
Oh, please!
Re: 46 year history? More like 4,600 years! (Score:1)
According to wikipedia [wikipedia.org], apples were domesticated between 4,000 and 10,000 years ago. It seems like people everywhere confuse technology companies with fruit.
I wonder (Score:1)
I wonder if this is the guy from Europe who bought my Mac 128 about 20 years ago.
Credit where due (Score:2)
Re: (Score:2)
I wonder how much of the museum is dedicated to Microsoft pulling broke Apple out of a dumpster?
They moved that to the "urban myths" section. Not because it's false, but because... reasons.
Now there needs to be an IBM museum. (Score:2)
Re: (Score:2)
Try this. [wikipedia.org]
Re: (Score:2)
https://museum.syssrc.com/ [syssrc.com]
Re: (Score:2)
Apple's cool and all, but an IBM museum would be even cooler. Even cooler than that would be a Sun Microsystems or DEC museum. Where else would you ever see a Sun workstation or a PDP-11?
But it is also notable that, of all the Personal Computer Companies born out of the Microprocessor Revolution starting around 1974 to 1976, only Apple is still making Personal Computers.
Breaking story - AD 21902 (Score:2)
Wrong audience for this type of news... (Score:2)
"You haven't been around here long, this is /.".
Anything Apple related is immediately trashed by 90% of a 99% white male audience, 40% still living at their parents in their 40's, as they nerd out on Linux.
This is /. - we don't do agnostic, we don't do careful consideration, we just knee-jerk a reaction - "Oh, someone said Apple - that's shit. It's shit. Make sarcastic comment."
It's a website inhabited by commentards who are tribal - to the extreme.
Sad, but true.
About as sad as the fact that this comment, i
Re: (Score:2)
It's a website inhabited by commentards who are tribal - to the extreme
Et tu Brute?
patientia non est virtus
Re: (Score:2)
Re: (Score:2)
I can't forgive them for the unholy mashup of C and Smalltalk that was Objective C
You do realize, of course, that pretty much every OO Language is some sort of variant of a mashup of SmallTalk and C, right?
SmallTalk is the Progenitor of Object Oriented Programming, period. C was similarly Fundamental. Of course many languages draw upon both their Fundamental Concepts and variations of their Syntax.
Stop picking on Objective C; which is far less fundamentally sad than, for instance, C++ and Java.
Re: (Score:2)
This is only about what if feels like to use. I'm not going to pretend I know which is implemented better under the hood.
Re: (Score:2)
It may be because I was exposed to C++ first, but I think Stroustrup did a better job extending C. Classes being structs with methods makes more sense and would be more quickly picked up by C programmers. C++ feels like an extension of C, rather than a mashup.
This is only about what if feels like to use. I'm not going to pretend I know which is implemented better under the hood.
I am not a computer language design ex-spurt either; but I just personally find both C++ and Java to be excessively "heirarchical" (which I realize is part of the point). I can't explain it very well, sorry!
I guess it depends on what you grew up with, as you said. I grew up on (numerous) Assembly Languages, plus BASIC and then C. So, I have little tolerance for "stuff that gets in the way" of getting down to the actual Program Logic. Anything else was more of a "yeah I guess so" for a particular Project; ra
Re: (Score:2)
Re: (Score:2)
Museums cost money to operate. Paul Allen's computer history museum which is currently closed because covid basically killed it. There is hope there will be funding to restart it, but Paul's family isn't footing the bill anymore. Apparently, he didn't set up a proper trust for the museum before he passed.
The Apple museum is located in Poland... I LOVE travelling to Poland. Costs me like $40 round trip... but still, I don't think I'd go there for the Apple museum if only because I've already s
Re: (Score:2)
This is /. - we don't do agnostic, we don't do careful consideration, we just knee-jerk a reaction - "Oh, someone said Apple - that's shit. It's shit. Make sarcastic comment."
Exhibit 1: Every Single Posting by User/Sockpuppet ACForever https://slashdot.org/~ACForeve... [slashdot.org]. He actually follows me around, posting his bile on every single thread on which I Post. FFS, he even created that UserName as a direct mockery of my own! How pathetic and basement-dweller can you get?
I want to see the exhibit... (Score:2)
Computers not fruit? (Score:2)
When I read the headline, I thought "better get there before the exhibits go off", but then realised the article was about computers.
[spoiler alert]Bit like the Barbie museum in Rat Race.