January 24, 1984 – The first step: Introduction of the Macintosh

26 years ago, on that day, Steve Jobs introduced to the world the first computer with a graphical interface for a price acceptable at the time. It was very exciting then but with the distance it appears as a preview, a prototype of what would come…

OCTOBER 12, 1988 – THE NeXT STEP: THE MACINTOSH DONE RIGHT

Steve Jobs, three years after his rebellion against corporate America who took over Apple with the help of the felon John Sculley, unveils to the world not only a new computer with a more sophisticated graphical interface but also the very first iteration of a platform most of the people will use in the future
And that’s what we use today: a robust UNIX system, that doesn’t crash and an oriented object software platform that nobody else cared to give us. That was 22 years ago and that’s why when the pundits talk about the next iPhone killer I’m laughin’ out loud: give them the time to build a platform solid and coherent enough and they’ll can come back in a few years (or decades!). Of course Apple will have moved in the meantime. So, in one word, they have no chance. If I was them I’d buy a solid rope.

January 27, 2010 – The last step (for now): The platform for everybody

13 years after having chased corporate America out of Apple and 26 years after having introduced the Macintosh (it divides well), Steve Jobs will introduce what is not a niche product for some of the Apple customers (a tablet) but the computer that everybody is waiting for. It is also a tablet but it’s not only that and that’s not its name.

I’ll come back to this before wednesday of course.
And there’s a good probability I’ll also write more about all this in the following weeks…