The Macintosh, or Mac, is a series of several lines of personal computers designed, developed, and marketed by Apple Inc. The first Macintosh was introduced on January 24, 1984; it was the first commercially successful personal computer to feature a mouse and a graphical user interface rather than a command-line interface.
As it began, so it ends. The iPad heralds the beginning of a new era of computing based not on the mouse and the desktop metaphor, but on touch and the ‘apps’ metaphor.
People complained about the original Mac: it used a mouse, it used a GUI, there wasn’t enough software. Then they actually tried it.
Now, famous for design and user interface, Apple is doing what Apple does best: introducing a new product, a new concept in computing, that will redefine the way everyone uses a computer.
