Apple Macintosh/Trivia


 * Executive Meddling: The only way to describe how Steve Jobs muscled his way into the project over Jef Raskin's objections. Which might be a good thing, really, as the tension in the group already started to mount at the time.
 * Super Bowl Special: The very first "big event" commercial made for the Super Bowl was an ad for the Macintosh. The very first "big flop" commercial made for the Super Bowl was an ad for Macintosh Office.
 * What Could Have Been: Entire books could be and have been written about ideas on which Apple didn't follow through — the Taligent and Copland operating systems, the Jaguar platform (eventually replaced by the Power Mac), the Integrated Burrell Machine, the Macintosh Office, MacBasic, G5 PowerBooks, Cell Macs, and several possible mergers that never happened.