Mac Museum sold on Ebay for $10,000

the8thark · Oct 11, 2010

Mac Museum sold on Ebay for $10,000
Mac Museum sold on Ebay for $10,000 | MacNN

iggibar · Oct 11, 2010

I bet it was Steve who won the auction!

the8thark · Oct 11, 2010

Steve Woz I bet

Lifeisabeach · Oct 13, 2010

idrinorbarsaku said:
I bet it was Steve who won the auction!

Not Steve Jobs. When he returned to Apple, he found a room filled with "vintage" Macs and ordered the room cleared out and put to real use. He doesn't live in the past.

MrClungeHead · Oct 13, 2010

lifeisabeach said:
Not Steve Jobs. When he returned to Apple, he found a room filled with "vintage" Macs and ordered the room cleared out and put to real use. He doesn't live in the past.

Bit of an Idiot Then, I Agree with almost every decision he made but They are the best macs

Lifeisabeach · Oct 13, 2010

MrClungeHead said:
Bit of an Idiot Then, I Agree with almost every decision he made but They are the best macs

Hardly an idiot. Practical to a fault, at worst. What would seriously be the point of having a room full of relics of the past? No really… why should they have been kept around?

SweetCosmicPope · Oct 13, 2010

History. Maybe not taking up office space, but definitely in glass cases or in an on-site museum.

Lifeisabeach · Oct 13, 2010

SweetCosmicPope said:
History. Maybe not taking up office space, but definitely in glass cases or in an on-site museum.

There already are Apple fans who host their own museums. This thread alone is about one in particular that sold, fer cryin' out loud. The more important pieces are in the Smithsonian. I'm sure Apple does have a few classic pieces here and there, but maintaining an entire museum would be redundant and pointless. There's no need to preserve everything they've ever done. It just takes up resources and obscures their focus. There's no place in this business for nostalgia. At least that's apparently how Steve Jobs sees it, and there's nothing that makes him an idiot for seeing it that way.

SweetCosmicPope · Oct 13, 2010

Not agreeing that he's an idiot, just citing a reason they might have wanted to keep them is all.

None of my business what they do. I don't work for them, and will likely never set foot in Cupertino, so...

Many businesses do like to take pride in their history and preserve aspects of it. Now, maybe holding on to every computer they've ever made might be a little overboard.

the8thark · Oct 13, 2010

lifeisabeach said:
There's no need to preserve everything they've ever done. It just takes up resources and obscures their focus. There's no place in this business for nostalgia. At least that's apparently how Steve Jobs sees it, and there's nothing that makes him an idiot for seeing it that way.

There's a saying and it goes kinda like this:
"Technology is based on a whirlwind of creative destruction".
And I can really see the wisdom in those words. There is no point wallowing in the past when it can obscure your vision of the future. Firstly as Apple do when you make version 2 of a product you need to not sell version 1 anymore. No point. And secondly old products are old ideas which are really out of date. And do no one any good.

Sure have an Apple museum somewhere with every Apple product ever made in it. But for Apple HQ, just have the latest and greatest. When you visit the campus, you want a feeling of "this is where the latest and best tech is made". You don't want to be feeling like you're walking through a history museum.

So in that vain I agree with jobs. Get rid of all the old trash.