How The iMac Saved Apple
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Today Apple is viewed as a juggernaut of a tech company. And it is. With a market value of 1.8 trillion dollars the company became the most valuable in the world as of July 2020. But things haven’t always been this way. At one point, Apple was on the brink of bankruptcy. But there was one product Apple released that helped turn the tide and set them on course for success. That was the iMac and in this video I’m going to explain how it helped save the company.
In my opinion one of the smartest moves Apple ever made was writing Windows software for iPod. This opened the Apple experience to a massive new group of consumers.
Fun fact: Steve Jibe said that Windows users could dance over his grave but he wouldn’t allow iTunes for Windows.
But eventually relented.
this was the case for 13 year old me.
@@bullymaguire6388iTunes is the prettiest windows app I've ever used lol
Small correction (timestamp: 0:50 ) the Apple II was released in '77, not '97. Great video btw!
lol I agree
Gregs worst script.
@@lestatlunar He’s a human not a robot, so he’s gonna make some accidents
@@No-xl9zd its been like that a few videos, we can expect him to improve his script by now.
Yeah but he’s written it correctly in the captions
This video makes me want a old mac.
an not a lol
i wish i could get an old 2005 imac
How old of a mac, btw?
Can it run mac os x?
You're so right. The iMac is different from most desktop pcs. And I like it.
Soooo true :P
@TVMisterTero "An i5 processor" doesn't mean anything if you don't specify cores or generation; no Macs have a "Fusion drive" they all have SSDs; and £2,000 will struggle to get you a 5K P3 colour calibrated display let alone with a computer attached.
Chodu.
Apple explained:how the iMac saved Apple
iPod:am I a joke to you
Indeed many's first impression of the modern Apple was the iPod
the iPod came around the same time that the iMac came out. Check your history.
sorry for roasting
@macBack123 I know
@@MacBack123 3 years, 2 months, 8 days between the two releases. Not exactly the "same time"..
@@Kenxstudios still close! They both saved Apple. Thats the point.
I was in a CompUSA computer store mid 90s. They had a sad little corner of the score dedicated to those old beige Macs. I'll never forget a guy saying 'Apple is done, stick a fork in em.' Had I gone out and bought 1k of shares that very day, it would be worth 663k today.
This guy is the smoothest sponsor transitional I've ever seen! He actually beat Linus!
Typical Steve Jobs, insisting on higher quality/beautiful design even if that means higher production cost!
And you can’t deny he was wrong. Making products more exclusive is the only way to prevent that your products are becoming a commodity and only compete in price.
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Yes
Nostalgic music.......
Everyone agrees in something: Jobs being the CEO of Apple was the most important part of the whole history.
Love your content Greg! Keep up the amazing work!!
I had a dream last night that Apple Explained uploaded a podcast but unfortunately it was just a dream.
@Enmity the Kindhearted He has one, but it seems like it's dead.
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@Enmity the Kindhearted he has a podcast. There are four episodes but he hasn’t in a couple months
"How iMac saved Apple"
Me who just put it in the fridge: ._.?
I always viewed the iMac as the product that got Apple in the right direction. But it didn't save Apple, the iPod did.
Saving Apple from bankruptcy means actually saving a company. Recognition is a different thing. The iPod made Apple thrive. But without the iMac do you think they would've released an iPod?
@@nohablogringo and that my friends is the million dollar question
Hey mate, how are you? I was just thinking today that it’s a pity haven’t seen your videos for a while. Because I love your videos and you are an amazing person to listen to. I love everyone who is logical and objective. 🙏 thanks for the video!
Great video by one of my few favorite Apple related stuff channels on RUclips!
Just finished binge watching your old videos
Hello, I love your content!
Great video as usual. Thank you
Greg, I like your story telling and format a lot. Have you considered going into longer format documentary work?
Nice video man keep it up! 👍🏻
Imagine if the iMac wasn't made and Microsoft bought apple
Then next would make the iPhone
If next with Steve Jobs as ceo would develop a phone, there’s no guarantee it is called iPhone. Maybe if this happened what you suggest, there wasn’t the revolutionary iPhone at all!
@@emiel333 NextPhone?
I believe that next was struggling because it was too high quality (and therefore price) for people to buy their products.. I suppose they might have figured things out, but I am really glad that things happened as they did.
@@maxroman2010 I bet next would he cheaper
@@queenzgamenzrblz5585 I highly doubt it. 😄 considering that iPhones aren’t the most expensive phones and haven’t been for a while.
My favorite iMac at that time were the clear blue ones. Back in the early 2000s my elementary school was full of those iMacs. No PCs anywhere on campus, it wasn't til high school that i started seeing and using PCs and windows regularly in school. But at my high school we had both Macs and PCs, macs for the more advanced classes like digital photography and production departments along with the science classes and we used windows for the computer programming and computer networking classes as well as in the computer labs
There were 13 colors of the iMac G3 which were
Bondi Blue, Blueberry, Grape, Tangerine, Lime, Strawberry, Graphite, Ruby, Sage, Indigo, Snow, Blue Dalmatian and Flower Power.
My favorite is either Strawberry or Ruby
However when the original was released in 1998 it only came in Bondi Blue the other colors came later on
Still have my iMac G3 in 2020. Speakers need to be replaced but I upgraded the memory and storage to their max values. This iMac was originally purchased because I was interested in iMovie and iTunes and had no interest to moving from Windows to a Mac. But it actually was the first of many Apple products for me. This iMac DV from 2001 runs great and no fan like the new MacBook Air.
I have owned 4 of the colorful iMacs and 1 colorful iBook. Loved them!
that smooth transition to the ad lol
What a nostalgia trip. My blueberry iMac was my first computer.
0:53 the apple ii came out in 1977, not 1997 and reached end of production 1993. Unless you meant a different apple computer.
But awesome video!
That is one hell of a transition to a sponsor.
Love the music
thanks!!!
I may love android but this channel is an exception
When the iconic iMac came out in 1999 with all the colors, I still had a computer but I really wanted that iMac! Even today, I would consider getting the newest iMac when my scrappy gaming PC bites the dust.
SPONCER starts at 3:30 and ends at 4:35
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Welcome guys 🙏
incredible!
Good job Jonathan Ive. I wish he was still at apple.
he kind of lost it since jobs death
I completely agree with you, that the CRT iMac saved Apple Computer. However, at the same time as the iMac Apple sold another system that, I wanted so very badly the G3 All-in-One because this computer had everything which, included the following: a 15-inch Sony CRT, internal floppy drive, internal Zip drive, built-in AV card, and internal CD-ROM drive. Plus it also had three (3) open internal PCI card slots for adding a Firewire-400 card and USB card.
What Steve Jobs did was an excellent piece of marketing! He made the iMac (with the same processor as the G3 All-in-One) look both cool and hip and was able to charge more and give less of a value to the buyer because unlike the G3 All-in-One the iMac had no floppy drive, Zip drive, or AV card. What can you say, even today good looks helps to sell products.
what also made the iMac and iBook great was a built in modem. What made iBook so great was Wifi. It was was one the first to have Wifi built in. This was at a time when the Internet in the early days and users needed simplicity and less periphery... iMac was very much plug and play. These Macs also helped the adoption of Mac OS X into mainstream.
Ah, so nostalgic the history of the imac is, my girlfriend of the time had one and i had a regular PC, i was kinda jealous. I really wanted one back then too, time for me to get a macbook pro.
love your video, hope you‘re alright ❤️
Ah yes... the machine that became the most iconic computer ever built... and it always shall carry this title, and it carries this essence in all of its later models.
I literally got an apple ad from watching this video
Nice way of sponsoring squarespace by using it as an example
My all time favorite probably because of the colors
We missed you , where were you been
I wonder if Jonny Ive was influenced at all by The Who’s Substitute - “I see right through your plastic Mac…”?
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Apple 1999- We need to be different, we need colour, rounded edges, see thru -futurist cases...
Apple Today- gray/silver, square, same design and look as everyone else...
i wanna see the ad with the imac vs pc
3:27 smooth transition to a sponsor
I love how he mixed up all the years. As if the Apple II would have been released in 97'. Those were icons of the 80s! I remember the computer class in school filled with Apple II's. Anyway, it is the opposite, Apple II was 84' and Macintosh was 97'
3:33 Please please, if you are patrocinated by squarespace it's ok, but don't cut the video that way, letting us think that the ad comes from your opinion rather than a paid space. Tell us that you are going to show a sponsor ad.
Had a few of these computers until they got stolen in an office break-in. I miss the colours!
Ahhh yes, I remember when the Apple II came out in 1997 as well...
I still have my iMac DV Special Edition. It was a big deal at the the to have a built in DVD player.
One of the reasons the PS2 sold so well was at the time, it was the cheapest DVD player on the market.
One critical factor that saved Apple after Steve Jobs' returned was eliminating the incompatibilities between PCs and Macs. USB meant they could share the same keyborads and mice. When USB flash drives became a thing, they were cross-compatible. They also made Macs capable of reading PC file formats like jpeg, gif, mpg, mp3, and Microsoft Office PC files. That made the Mac far more capable of coexisting with the PC since it's important for offices to be able to share and look at the same documents on their machines. Incompatibilities would also be unthinkable with internet, email, and LAN file transfers.
Correction:
0:51 Apple II was released on 1977, not 1997.
Apple II released in 1997? Without a doubt that's wrong, but everyone makes mistakes
Yeah the release date of the Apple 2 is April 1977 not 1997
He missread apple 11 as apple 2. The apple 11 was released in 1997 /s
2:18 in those days iBook was a laptop now it’s the Apple library of actual books that you can download and read on your device
Can you make a video on what the earliest year you should get a MacBook from, I don’t want to get one that is too old because nothing would work on it, but I don’t want one that’s new because it’s too expensive. So I want to know what is cheapest and worth your money.
I'm not an Apple fan, bit there is no denying their impact on the industry. I still wonder if the iMac could have been released a few years earlier at the start of the internet boom if the home PC market would have looked like the smartphone market today, where they hold about 50% in developed countries.
So treu, the iMac saved Apple with sir Steve Job's yes to go with this cool design. The Color Classic is still the cutest computer though.
My elementery had to have helped with sales. I remember we had a computer lab with dozens of the thing.
Nice.
See what they did there? Nice Segway into the sponsor ad there
If I had either one of those iMacs or iBooks I would want an orange (tangerine) one
Btw if you want to know what a confusing product line looks like, try shopping on HP or Dell in 2020. Cheers.
we need another imac
1:23 I can see why they got Ashton Kutcher to play Steve Jobs in the Steve Jobs movie he looks a lot like him in Steve Jobs’ early days unfortunately I never saw that movie but I’ve always wanted to being an avid Apple fan
Maybe Apple should bring back Bondi Blue.
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5:11 I can recognise that CD thats on the PC case fucking anywhere. Nine Inch Nails- March Of The Pigs.
I am typing this comment on an M1 iMac. I switched to Mac in 2006 and have exclusively used iMac in my persona life (MBP in work life). I love these damn computers, totally.
Throughout almost 20 years of using iMacs I still to this day get PC users, in one generation or another, who mock me for the design, no matter if it's the plastic white, the silver aluminium or the current thin design.
They usually then tout their, "gaming rig" and I always honestly state, "yeah I don't like my computer looking like a rainbow bomb" and WOW they get so offended... It's not that I'm arguing hardware specs, but aesthetics ARE important to people.
hell even casey neistat started with one of those classic colored imacs
Am I the only person who thinks the background music matched late 2000s-early 2010s Apple?
I sold my iMac 4 years after I bought it for $35. What a piece of junk. The 1 meg Macintosh I got in the 80s still works beautifully. It was the first computer I used on the internet.Try getting on the internet with 1mb of memory today.
1:46 so one of Apple's big flaws at their lowest point is they were selling too many indistinguishable models and it was confusing for consumers...
Meanwhile in the present, Apple released FOUR iPhone 14 models, and the baseline ones are failing because they aren't easily distinguishable from the higher end models, or the previous iPhone 13s.
Imagine a world without Apple I shutter to think of it
For me the big deal is the security. I came from intel pc with viruses on every single purchase. But since i switched to apple things changed and will never go back to intel pc or windows os.
I remember this just like yesterday. I didn't buy this cos it was too expensive and can't run Autocad. It was more for rich snobs and graphic designers.
Wow!
0:01 did my guy really say jogurrniat nested og juggernaut
What
This is why l prefer the old verison
the apple ii was released in 1997?
I definitely remember when this came out, saved the whole company until the iPod came out.
Apple II was released in 1977 not 1997.
Apple II in 1997? You want to edit that chief? 0:52
Apple brought color and style to the Computer world. Since then the Windows computers started coming out with colorful computers.
I would say the ipod saved Apple. The iMac was a hit but lots of companies release popular products that don't save the company.
if they would intigrate a M1 Chip into and old colourfull Imac, In would be tempted to buy it
rip Greg game channel😓 R.I.P
Apple had the best comeback since Tina Turner.
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4 product Apple before the first iPod was my favorite period. Since Jobs died they have been growing their product line and it is getting cluttered again.
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The i book looks like that one toy I had when I was 6
5:27 that's what she said
I know this is an “American” channel (the quotation marks being due to it being viewable in most of the world), but it still feels like it would’ve been relevant to note that Jony Ive was so respected for his revolutionary industry-redefining designs that he was given a knighthood for his work, despite it being for an American company...
Watching from a 2007 iMac aluminum edition
Why Windows Phone Failed - That would make for a great video.
Or maybe... why the MacRumors Forums are so toxic.