Think Retro: Why the cute and quirky eMate was Apple’s most human product<article>
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It’s not that I don’t like Apple’s current hardware and software, but I fondly recall the days when its computers were suffused with a chirpy, cheerful
personality. Today’s slabs of aluminum and black glass are powerful, desirable, and elegant, but you could also call them austere, anodyne—perhaps even
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It’s a world away from the Apple of the ’80s and ’90s. Then there was a playfulness—a playfulness that shaded almost into anarchy—in things as dull as
error messages, even in flagship software. True, this was not always welcome, nor to everyone’s taste—Exhibit A:
Clippy—which is probably why the practice died out as software became more professional.</p><p class="jumpTag"><a href="/article/2856351/think-retro-why-the-cute-and-quirky-emate-was-apple-s-most-human-product.html#jump">To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here[/url]</p></section></article>
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Think Retro: Why the cute and quirky eMate was Apple’s most human product
