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Amazing to see products ahead of their time. What gets me is what is shown on the screen...a person banking, what I'm assuming is online. Common place now but this was before the internet.

Ok, are you guys getting some sort of compensation for every reference or photo you make to something from Apple?

This is supposed to be Apartment Therapy Unplggd? smarter homes, fewer wires and all that. But what you see 99% of the time are only homes with an Apple computer on a desk, people with Apple products, and stories about Apple products.

I'm sorry, but this is just too far from coincidence to pass the laugh test.

Are you telling me that the only things worthy of posting just happen to almost always involve Apple devices?

I love this site, but seriously do you guys just filter out stuff with PCs showing?

@PartMeant
This happens to be a "blog" of sorts and is written by various authors. It's not a corporation. As such, posts tend to cater to whatever whoever is writing likes. This author happens to have a bias towards Apple. This reminds me of the same type comments on Autoblog when a reader believes a particular car or automaker is being posted about too much.

It's not like the posts are anti-someone else. I can probably assume that most of the writers for this blog use Macs themselves. Promote what you know...Perhaps a writer will come along that enjoys (and enjoys posting about) Dell/HP/Sony/etc..

Nouniard

but seriously do you guys just filter out stuff with PCs showing?

No, it's a giant conspiracy (involving pink unicorns from Australia, the IMF, and a secret cabal of editorial staff from Die Welt), and you're the first person to notice it. Congrats!

...posted from an HP workstation that looks like it was hit by the Ugly Truck...

What is sad is that the Kindle takes it's design cues from a product designed in 1983. ugh.

Atari started up their AtariTel division in I think 1981 and had cooked up similar forward-thinking products with incredible designs. They'd produced a prototype speakerphone a lot like those Polycom units - full duplex, no feedback - but about 20 years before the Polycom phones made it to market.

The whole thing imploded during the first videogame crash. Atari ended up selling the telephone stuff off to Mitsubishi, I think.

Oh, here's a link to their full-duplex speakerphone:

http://www.atarimuseum.com/ataritel/eagle.html

Porsche Design worked on the case. They were also working on a practical videophone, which I think Mitsubishi eventually brought to market.

This didn't "come out" in 1983 -- it was a concept piece, designed to show the possibilities of the Apple design language that Hartmut Esslinger and his firm (frog design) came up with. It was not feasible at the time, and I can't imagine anyone thought it would be feasible in the near-term future. ID firms do things like that all the time.

What's neat to me is that I can see the relationship between these designs and my MacBook at home -- there's a consistency to the design language that says "Apple" even as the design has evolved radically. There aren't really PC manufacturers about whom I can say the same thing - Gateway used to have at least consistent packaging, but who else?

Why do PC users always complain about Apple Equipment/Users, They made a choice, just like us that choose Apple of course it was the wrong choice but non the less they had a choice...