Steve Jobs introduces the iMac - 1998
The announcement of the iMac in 1998 was a source of controversy and anticipation among commentators, Mac fans, and detractors. Opinions were divided over Apple's drastic changes to the Macintosh hardware. At the time, Apple had suffered a series of setbacks as consumers increasingly opted for Wintel machines instead of Apple's Performa models. Many in the industry thought that "beleaguered Apple" would soon be forced to start selling computers with a custom interface built on top of one or more potential operating system bases, such as Taligent, Solaris, or Windows NT.
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Shoutout to the Apple two team
@ferrreira
3 жыл бұрын
Your comment reminded me that, when the first iMac was announced, the last Apple II product, the Apple IIe, had been discontinued only 5 years prior, in 1993
@ShaheedSmoke
3 жыл бұрын
I actually Lol’d at this
@wasthataj
2 жыл бұрын
Whoever came here after watching Steve Job's Movie i'm laughing super hard
@jordanfrancisco27
2 жыл бұрын
Just the key people!
@immortalabomination
2 жыл бұрын
@@jordanfrancisco27 There are no key people in apple 2. There are only B players.
How I miss Steve Jobs. I saw this Keynote and bought my Apple stock immediately the next day. My Stockbroker at the time, told me I was crazy, "Don't invest in it, Apple is going under." I said "Just buy it...Steve is BACK!" Was less than $10 a share I think, I can't remember exactly. And what a good investment it has been! Is now my retirement safety net.
@jeanlandim
Жыл бұрын
Holy shit
@pattii55
Жыл бұрын
@@donnysarian Nice!!! Apple has been good to us! :) I feel very fortunate that I got to see three Steve Jobs Keynotes '04, '06, and '08 before Macworld Expos forever ended and Steve was gone. Before design was done on a Mac I had no interest in computers. After I fell love with the Mac I ended up in Mac based Tech Support for 33 years, which paid better than being just a Designer. Apple was good to me in many ways.
@eric.waffles
Жыл бұрын
How many shares did you buy at the time? Just out of curiosity if you don't mind me asking!
@eric.waffles
Жыл бұрын
@@donnysarian Wow, with all the stock splits that have happened since then, that's an insanely big nest egg. Congratulations! I hope retirement ends up very luxurious!
@pattii55
Жыл бұрын
@@eric.waffles I sold a few other stocks at the time, to be able to buy some Apple and I was just starting to be interested in buying stocks at the time so my purchase wasn't even near 1,000 shares but the stock splits through the years have certainly added up and helped my number of shares increase. I'm no Hard Rock Musician (but my husband does play in an AC/DC Tribute Band! :)
All praised to the Apple 2 team
@evodgamehunter4290
2 жыл бұрын
Meh b list played
@Donyourmom
Жыл бұрын
Apparently Jobs wanted A list players
I cry every time I watch this. Computers were never the same after this moment. Thanks Steve! Miss you.
It's interesting how much Steve's keynotes simplified over the years. So much more statistics and general data info with this launch
@4968ace
Жыл бұрын
Market changed. These PowerBook machines fully loaded were like.. $12,000 adjusted for inflation! Pro consumers were interested in these machines for rendering and photoshop and so on and cared about stats. By 2007 he was aware that he wasn’t talking to an audience who wanted a live benchmark test vs their competitors.
@JeffIsJello
Жыл бұрын
And more turtle neck and jeans less suit
@looking_33
9 ай бұрын
@@4968aceThis was also in the heat of him trying save apple from imminent bankruptcy and diving deep in these public appearances was helpful in calming investors.
Even today that is still a nice looking computer
Of course they don’t seem as cool now but I remember seeing the iMac in a store for the first time and it just looked mind blowing at the time compared to the boring beige boxes everyone else was putting out. Apple was so much more radical back then. When they came out with a new computer it was always unlike anything you’d ever seen before. Wish they’d get back to that.
@DavidL1986
3 жыл бұрын
It’s what saved their ass
@hunterjay8331
2 жыл бұрын
Apple still makes computers that look radically different than the average PC. Only difference now is that others have caught on and started imitating them.
@pulsatingsausageboy2076
2 жыл бұрын
@@hunterjay8331 No, they don’t. They used to innovate quickly enough that there wasn’t the opportunity for other makers to clone them. And over the last fifteen years or so the changes they’ve made have been evolutionary. Not really innovative like they used to be.
@hunterjay8331
2 жыл бұрын
@@pulsatingsausageboy2076 I don’t think there’s anyone in the computer industry right now that can really compete with Apple’s M1, not to mention the outrageously thin and colorful new iMacs (nodding to the original iMac). And remember back with that original iMac, they shipped an operating system that was genuinely a step down from windows at that time. Today MacOS is more appealing than it ever has been before to both pro and average users, and the install base is growing faster than ever. And Apple copycats are not new, remember the emachines version of the iMac G3?
@pulsatingsausageboy2076
2 жыл бұрын
The colored iMacs isn’t innovating. That’s bringing back something they’ve already done before. MacOS is great but that’s software and there’s not much there that isn’t being done on Windows. Just being done better in most cases. Whether copycats are new isn’t relevant to what I said about Apple’s innovation.
1998: check out our cool newly redesigned computers in flashy colors and specs 2019: $999 monitor stand
@elroxmusic
4 ай бұрын
2021: Check out our cool newly redesigned computers in flashy colors and specs
@trashyraccoon2615
Ай бұрын
2024: Insanely powerful Mac mini for a few hundred bucks. Try to keep up! Lol
@macking7108
11 күн бұрын
2028: iPhone 20
This was the first product that ever made me take notice of Apple when I was a kid, I never had one as I had a PC but I always remember thinking how cool it looked, Steve Jobs was one very smart man.
@Dr0111
Жыл бұрын
Same with me😮
@Artixou
Жыл бұрын
nah
@transcending_concrete
11 ай бұрын
Same with me.
@jackilynpyzocha662
29 күн бұрын
A friend got me the Bondi Blue system for a buck at a local yard sale, nice system, 9.22, I bought and installed Appleworks 6, that DVD player rocked!
12:49 "This 2 Macs are cheaper than the Compaq Armada" Oh man, good old times.
@triple7marc
Ай бұрын
Macs are cheaper now that they’re using Apple’s own chips.
To think just 10 years later, we would lose him. The amount of achievements that he made within that time is just astounding. He even laid the ground for quite a few projects to be continued and introduced after his death.
@OldAussieAds
Ай бұрын
I agree with your sentiment. But it was more than 10 years.
Here after movie Steve Jobs 2015,to see the complete movie..
@veronmkhonzi5600
3 жыл бұрын
so true
@93tilinfinity4life
2 жыл бұрын
Same here!!
@totallynotretro9967
2 жыл бұрын
Omg a year later and I'm literally doing the same thing lol
@manciv510
Жыл бұрын
@@totallynotretro9967 me to
I still think the iMac has a cooler look to it then any other computer today.
Got one of the early Bondi-blue iMacs and we loved it. But "best mouse you've ever used" was actually the worst mouse I've ever used. My God.
@enticingFicus
2 жыл бұрын
Yeah, it didn’t take long for the aftermarket bondi blue peripherals to get going. We had a matching Epson printer, too
@pattii55
Жыл бұрын
Agree, the round "Hockey Puck" mouse was the only fail in sight.
@charlesdjones1
Жыл бұрын
Jobs was warned by a former Apple exec (who basically created the Apple design mantra early on in the 1970's) that the mouse design was a big mistake, Steve ignored him.
@HunterShows
Жыл бұрын
@@enticingFicus That's so cool. Shame it's all ancient history now.
I bought iMac model B. I had two issues. 1. The mouse cable was too short. It wasn't designed for left handed people. 2. The memory was too slow. Once i installed 128 MB it ran like a dream.
@ConorDaRobin
Жыл бұрын
Model A is better.
@karlimo4034
4 ай бұрын
Cool design but low specs and short cables... Apple is so like Nintendo...
@hariahindarwin5451
3 ай бұрын
@@karlimo4034what?
i love how steve jobs structured his keynotes like a business presentation
@freddjie3097
Ай бұрын
Yep, at that point he still needed to appease investors to get money just for the company to stay afloat. Investors like improvement, so that’s what he gave
Steve was a Master Showman
17:50 "these things are uuuuugllly!"
Even after all these years, the iMac still looks like something from the future.
It gets lost in a lot of the other things apple made over the year, but this was such an awesome product to ahead of its time and influenced so much of computing going forward. It also hugely raised the bar for consumer pcs. Absolute genius product. This was the moment apple truly returned to the forefront
@hermanwooster8944
13 күн бұрын
Agreed. It put Apple on the front page of tech again. It had a unique design. Everyone knew it was an Apple product, and it just looked great. This was at a time when PC makers put no thought into their looks because they were thought of as business machines. Apple made a consumer product for consumers at the right moment when more people were considering a home PC. I consider the iMac as the first major success with Steve Jobs back in as CEO and instrumental to making the iPod.
8:00 2020: AMD is ripping Intel, yeh, history is cruel
@standupyak
Ай бұрын
dude thats a PowerPC G3 not AMD
I am watching it as comparison with the next huge leap with the M1 chip. Steve and Phil would have been extremely excited with it. Well, Phil is there still as an Apple Fellow, but no longer in the presentation.
its july 2023. still watching it.
Watching this on my iPhone 15 pro.... Just imagine having this phone back then..
1:42 The “non-key” employees felt ripped off.
"Interim CEO" - the only entrepreneur to found the greatest company in the world, twice.
What a star. This guy was a true genius in at his thing...
It changed the world
The best innovator in computing science technology. We need another Steve Jobs for today’s Apple
@bouxesas2046
3 жыл бұрын
He was no innovator. He was just a good presenter and salesman.
@Mecha120
3 жыл бұрын
@@bouxesas2046 innovator's the wrong word, visionary would be the word I would use. He had his own vision that went against the grain of tech trends at the time and it was his vision that made a people that would otherwise have no interest in computers suddenly become interested. He did it a second time with smartphones when most people didn't care to have a Palm OS phone or Blackberry, but all flocked over once he revealed the first iPhone.
@ghostlycry246
3 жыл бұрын
@@Mecha120 Just what I wanted to comment XD
@EduSanchez
3 жыл бұрын
Hello, have you hear about Elon Musk
@ferrreira
3 жыл бұрын
@@EduSanchez how many of his products have entered the mainstream?
This is the one I had back in 1999 when I was a little girl. I loved my computer💙
Not a glowing ‘EXIT’ sign in sight
@edoardodalpra4742
Жыл бұрын
...so? Not triggered just asking
@HunterShows
Жыл бұрын
They had those in 1998.
@looking_33
9 ай бұрын
@@edoardodalpra4742liberal agenda ruined product presentation
@Donyourmom
2 ай бұрын
@@edoardodalpra4742watch Steve Jobs (2015)
@ziggybadans
Ай бұрын
@@edoardodalpra4742Was a major part in the movie, Steve wanted the exit lights off in the original Mac launch.
People have been working really hard. You can see a lot of cars in the in the parking lots at nights and on weekends." This was classic Steve Jobs. He made sometimes the impossible possible. The iMac and the Apple 2 are only 2 examples. But you can be sure that his teams would have really liked to send him to the moon at times.
Jeez Phil sold me on the Compaq with that intro
Wasn’t very happy with apple with iPhone lately but I am happy to say as someone who grew up in the 2000s in a private Catholic school who had these computers, thanks for the new 2021 iMac m1 chip version baseline. Brings back nostalgia. Do I want green or purple? Amazing stuff.
I’ve still got my 233MHz Bondi blue iMac. Until 5 years ago I was still using it as a music server running OS X 10.2 Still going well, safe and sound, tucked up in his original box, although I did replace the 5 Gb HD! Lol
What software was the "director" demo using?
@ferrreira
4 жыл бұрын
Director, from Macromedia
@looking_33
9 ай бұрын
director. lol.
Still I want to have one with same design
Still enjoying my PowerPC processor in the Wii U lol.
Watching using MacBook Pro - 2.2 GHz 6-Core Intel Core i7 Screen: 15 inch 1920 x 1080 pixels
I remember using these In an internet cafe in the early 2000s
😢😢RIP Steve the greatest innovator ever👍🙏 Apple market cap 1998=$1.8B today = $1,378 T even when the “other” mediocre cod ripped it off many times over
Crazy that we have a iMac with 16 GB memory from 32 MB, 2 TB SSD from a 4 GB spinning hard drive, 10,000 GB Ethernet from 100 MB, 6 speakers from 2, and a 24 inch screen from 15. We also have it in colors, it’s 11.5mm and weights 9.75 pounds.
@KCM25NJL
2 жыл бұрын
10,000 GB Ethernet? Are you from the future? xD
Those CompUSA Mac "sections" (not stores) were always rough. Half the products didn't work or were dirty and scratched up; no employees to help you. It is a far cry from how their products are present and sold today in their stores.
@MikeLikesChannel
Ай бұрын
Those sections were so depressing, we have CompUSA’s utter incompetence to thank for modern Apple Stores.
Acknowledge Apple-II team.
17:50 he got that right!
Shout out Apple team two for apple 2 Computer
@marknolido5968
2 жыл бұрын
Ok
All companies do need controllers demanding, supporting engineers and not braking and demotivating them.
phil and steve actually look like the presenters from telemarketing but selling the actual good products 😂😂
Is there a higher res of this video. Steve would hate this video.
Apple has made many computers over the years. But it was the original compact Mac that felt more than a computer. It was it's own thing with it's own personality... The Mac. The iMac was the closest they got to this phenomenon again, and I'd say they did a pretty good job.
In 1998 Abdul traya registered the apple iMac domain . So interesting
5:14 He was shocking right !
Historical moments part 1
The greatest showman! 👏
Steve Jobs talking... To the attendants: I'm back. I'll grow the Company, look at this numbers. And... this is the iMac, is awesome. To himself: Hey bitches, I'm back. The ones who almost destroyed the company are fired and I'm take the control and make Apple great again. Shits like the Pippin and the iMate are out, this the iMac, the future of Apple and the entire compute industry.
still looks great ... i have one in BONDI BLUE :)
The low resolution of the video made sense to distribute on the World Wide Web in 1998 as people used dial-up internet (has a maximum speed of 56,000 bits for every second), but we now need higher quality footage of the full event now that internet speeds have improved. This upload is not of the full event as portions of the event done after the 26:50 mark are missing from this upload. Apple, Inc. published a video to commemorate the 10th anniversary of Steve Jobs's death, and that video contains a short excerpt of this event. Apple's montage contains higher quality footage of this exact event and other events from the late 1990s to the early 2000s for which the footage widely distributed is at varying levels of low quality due to internet speeds of the time (Uniform Resource Locator: kzread.info/dash/bejne/dZmHo8yEYqaodaQ.html (footage of this event is at 1:05-1:14 in the montage); Apple's montage contains video material from the 1980s, which predates the internet as a common thing). It is unknown what the storage medium of the footage of the event is, but if the video was recorded to the storage medium as interlaced (every other line in the frame is captured at different intervals), the footage as uploaded to the World Wide Web needs to be stored and displayed at the intended temporal resolution caused by the interlacing (The excerpt present in Apple's montage is most likely missing half the frames: Apple's upload is at 30 images per second while the intended temporal resolution is 60 images per second).
Speaking as someone who grew up starting on an Apple ][ plus, then had Windows PC’s (going from Windows 3.1 to Windows 3.11 Windows for Workgroups, to Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows 2000, Windows XP, _then BACK to 2000)_ Currently, I have a 2012 Apple MacBook Pro (which came stock w/ 4GB Ram & 500GB HDD) which started running like shit around 2019, & *NOW* has 16GB RAM & a 1TB SSD which I did myself in my bedroom _[All of that being said]_ Do you have *ANY IDEA* how easily it’d be to manipulate the Compaq PC’s so they’d intentionally run like shit? They could’ve been running Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, Kinetix 3D Studio Max, and take up all the memory with 3D rendering & TSR _(terminate-and-stay memory residents programs)_ which their programmers could’ve programmed easily
Shout out to the apple2 team😂
He was talking about 100 million profit and 2 billion valuation
Judy Jetson's Easy Bake Oven
No one sold products better than Steve.
Damn what happened to infrared technology?
@impracticalrunner7529
2 жыл бұрын
Bluetooth killed the infrared
@rbrick3685
Жыл бұрын
It got murdered by the much better and more reliable Bluetooth
@looking_33
9 ай бұрын
@@rbrick3685I still use it on my tv remote
That thing looks like Judy Jetson's Easy Bake Oven.
The G3 is, to this day, the most beautiful computer ever designed
Little did he know it would be around almost 30 years from then lol
I've been a fan of Steve Jobs for 11 years now and I really appreciate the quality of Apple products. However, I was always into DOS and Windows 95/98 and I really think they were the better options - because they were OPEN. I still can't deal with Apple's closed ecosystem bullshit. Having said that, I respect Apple. Weird but true.
Did he use a teleprompter?
i don't f**g know why people watch kim kardashian shows more than this beauty
Think different.
17:49 lmaoo
He made me want to buy it in 2023 😅
@supernastja_art
9 ай бұрын
25 years later 💀💀💀💀💀
Steve Jobs could sell me sand in the desert
looks like judy jetsons easy bake oven
Apple TWO in DA House!
He saved the company more than once and they still tried to oust him.
hard
This was the start of the most valuable company on earth (yhea I know they tetter with another company bite me)
Apple 2 will have the biggest houses on the unemployment line
Watching this on a ipad with 8 gigs of ram like 👀 a screamer?
It's really, really fast. It's really, really big.
@evodgamehunter4290
2 жыл бұрын
It was really compacted for a fully functional desktop at the time. You have to give credit where it’s due
Steve Jobs invented THE SHADE OF IT ALLL
Shout out to apple 2 team, just the top guys
Steve Jobs, genius, the best.
Computer history's DINOSAURS
If you think about it, Apple is the same today with the M1 processors. M1 run much faster, cooler, and as a result, basically silently compared to Intel/Windows offerings. Steve Jobs really was an incredible human being for the tech world with his vision.
@NKWTI
Жыл бұрын
Yes, I've noticed that too. Great stuff.
If the PowerPC chip was so good they would still be using it! Ya they abandoned it for the Intel chips!
@looking_33
9 ай бұрын
And they abandoned those too, time moves forward.
Most movies from 100 years ago have better picture quality than this.
@ptingz9307
Ай бұрын
This isn't the original quality of the video, its an archive
13 years later he was dead.
What I do appreciate about the old Jobs and Apple is that it used to be about the features and performance, not the cult. Now if it has an Apple logo on it, Apple fans will buy it. It can be underpowered, counter-productive or down right unusable... they will still buy it. Back then they had something to prove. I liked that.
Mmbop, mmbob.... The Hansson era. I personally thought this computer kinda sucked.
IRDA !!!!
Кто здесь от Романцева?
The original iMac wasn't upgradable I take it. If you want to upgrade you have to buy a completely different machine.
@marconoboa1154
3 жыл бұрын
Ram was expandable to 128 mb, and even the g3 processor was upgradable
@gabrielmcguoirk6106
3 жыл бұрын
All apple computers after the apple II were closed circuit
@BixbyConsequence
3 жыл бұрын
@@gabrielmcguoirk6106 Bullshit. I've upgraded plenty of Macs, including the original iMac, with disk drives, memory, cpu upgrades, graphic cards, etc...
@bluesdealer
Жыл бұрын
Not true. Apple didn’t make non-upgradable personal computers until the Tim Cook era. It’s why I don’t rely on them anymore. I was 100% in during the Jobs era. Despite his reputation for liking closed systems, you could always upgrade and tweak if you knew what you were doing. And they were much more affordable.
@dannydaw59
Жыл бұрын
@@bluesdealer What about the one called "the toaster" in the 80s? It had no cooling fans. It was popular in schools in the late 80s.
Suscripciones de por vida tal cual colegiaturas secundaria ,primaria,media superior,universidad,ticket de ferrocarril,ticket centro dd incubacion de empresas y transferencia de tecnologia,saludos.
Apple 2
Кто от романа?)
@user-jo1et8jx5u
Жыл бұрын
Я
FIRST
D'après le film il ne savait même pas crée un programme et traiter ces employer comme de la merde, le mérite revient surtout a sont équipe,ce mec était un salle con ,il n'as jamais compris que ce que les gens voulait c'était du ludique et accessible ,ont pourrait presque dire que c'est de la discrimination a vouloir vendre des Mac hors de prix et de toute façon pour quelqu’un qui a de l'argent faut vraiment être un enfoirer pour renier ça propre fille sachant que c'était la sienne,enfin d'après les 2 films biopic que j'ai pu observer :)
Am I the only one who thinks this thing was fugly? I remember my junior high bought these things the year they released and I thought they sucked and looked like preschool toys.