Elegy for the Native Mac App
<p>The first Macintosh came out in 1984 with a familiar formula: expensive, limited, but elegant and easy to use. From the start it was something of a cult classic. Apple was struggling financially, and spent most of the 90s on hair-brained ideas: the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Newton" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">Newton</a>, the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Pippin" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">Pippin</a>, the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_QuickTake" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">QuickTake</a>. All of them flopped while the Mac languished, half-forgotten. A cult-ish community formed around the Mac because it <em>needed</em> a community just to keep it alive.</p>
<p>That community was still going strong in 2007 when I got an iMac and dipped my toes into Twitter — which at that point was mostly just a fun community hub for all varieties of tech nerd. It has since gone downhill.</p>
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