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    Image of Evangelion Evangelion
    11/04/09

    In reply to Steve Jobs' Original Name for the iMac Was So Horrifying It Would Explode Your Ears
    "Look at this mouse. Its, its the most wonderful mouse you've ever used."

    LOL #imac
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    11/04/09

    In reply to Steve Jobs' Original Name for the iMac Was So Horrifying It Would Explode Your Ears
    Wow I Love the last 2-3 minutes of this video. Imagine you see Steve Jobs in SAMS CLUB trying to get you to sample some sausage..
    Jobs: I present you the iSausage
    Containing 93 per cent meat and seasoned with white pepper, nutmeg and ginger, it's a great advertisement for simplicity.It's a slightly Germanic-style sausage that would be great with braised cabbage or sauerkraut - and a nice cold German lager. There's also an unsmoked version. This can be found in the I-Aisle.
    Special Introductory Price $9.99 per pound

    Guy can sell anything... #imac
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    Image of mmmiles mmmiles
    11/04/09

    @balloonboy4life: Making a good product is not enough, you have to sell it as well. Consumers don't know what they need until you tell them! #imac
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    Image of The Lab The Lab
    11/04/09

    In reply to Steve Jobs' Original Name for the iMac Was So Horrifying It Would Explode Your Ears
    This is a non-story if Segall won't tell us the name. He is an advertising guy and he knew he could get his name out with a "Job's made a mistake" story. He intentionally leaves us hanging, leaving us wanting more. Classic ad man move. I understand Giz has to cover this type of thing but I can't help but think this guy is playing this website for his own purposes. #imac
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    11/04/09

    @The Lab: From the linked article:
    ""I’ve got some great emails from him," Segall says. "I might publish them one day, but he’ll never talk to me ever again.""

    He's using this to push a book deal. He's good at this ad business. He just got an ad for free. #imac
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    Image of AmphetamineCrown AmphetamineCrown
    11/04/09

    In reply to Steve Jobs' Original Name for the iMac Was So Horrifying It Would Explode Your Ears
    It was totally gonna be the NeXT ][+. #imac
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    Image of Canoehead Canoehead
    11/04/09

    In reply to Steve Jobs' Original Name for the iMac Was So Horrifying It Would Explode Your Ears
    Redrum! #imac
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    Image of Fractal the Meek Fractal the Meek
    11/04/09

    In reply to Steve Jobs' Original Name for the iMac Was So Horrifying It Would Explode Your Ears

    Thank you, Matt, for sparing us the maiming. #imac
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    11/04/09

    @Fractal the Meek: Good ol' God, with her deadly voice... #imac
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    Image of se7a7n7 se7a7n7
    11/04/09

    In reply to Steve Jobs' Original Name for the iMac Was So Horrifying It Would Explode Your Ears
    I believe he wanted to go with the "Macomputosh"
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    Image of mthomes mthomes
    11/04/09

    In reply to Steve Jobs' Original Name for the iMac Was So Horrifying It Would Explode Your Ears
    Any one irritated that the article doesn't tell you the horrible name? Buildup to nothing!!! #imac
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    Image of BIGE1312 BIGE1312
    11/04/09

    @mthomes: I know. It's like those really annoying movies where every one is running around after a box/package/briefcase because it conatians something they all want. After two hours of watching all this they never tell you what was in the box/package/briefcase. Ronin, Cast Away, Pulp Fiction to name a few. #imac
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    11/06/09

    @BIGE1312: or how the Sopranos ended with "don't stop..." #imac
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    Image of darngooddesign darngooddesign
    11/04/09

    In reply to Steve Jobs' Original Name for the iMac Was So Horrifying It Would Explode Your Ears
    In the (considerable) shadow of the 27" iMac his statement of, "what's the largest display we would want on one of these things...15" ", is very humorous. #imac
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    Image of Jrsy Devil's Advocate® Jrsy Devil's Advocate®
    11/04/09

    In reply to Steve Jobs' Original Name for the iMac Was So Horrifying It Would Explode Your Ears
    So Ken Segall is the one to blame for that damn 'i'.... #imac
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    Image of jessedybka jessedybka
    11/04/09

    @Jrsy Devil's Advocate®: Totally not his fault. Someone got to it before him.

    [en.wikipedia.org] #imac
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    Image of rizzle rizzle
    11/04/09

    In reply to Steve Jobs' Original Name for the iMac Was So Horrifying It Would Explode Your Ears
    if you read the source article it says it had something to do with Macintosh and the Internet... My guess would be Macinternet... or intertosh... or tosh.0.... #imac
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    Image of Kaiser-Machead Kaiser-Machead
    11/04/09

    In reply to Steve Jobs' Original Name for the iMac Was So Horrifying It Would Explode Your Ears
    I loved my G3 iMac, but my particular iMac also had dual firewire and a DVD drive, and actually ran Panther with FF3 very nicely.

    Also, does anyone else really wish that Jobs would put on a nice suit once in a while?
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    Edited by Kaiser-Machead at 11/04/09 11:17 AM Kaiser-Machead was starred Kaiser-Machead was unstarred
    Image of SigmundTheSeaMonster SigmundTheSeaMonster
    11/04/09

    @Kaiser-Machead: If he puts on a suit, he will "be" the craggy man on the screen in the 1984 videos #imac
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    Image of phunnyballs phunnyballs
    11/04/09

    In reply to Steve Jobs' Original Name for the iMac Was So Horrifying It Would Explode Your Ears
    you should have warned us that the article actually didnt say the original name. #imac
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    Image of N@tedog N@tedog
    11/04/09

    @phunnyballs: Then nobody would have clicked on it. #imac
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    11/04/09

    @N@tedog: They'd have clicked on it otherwise? I'm surprised no one has bad-mouthed the author yet for not posting the original name in the on-site article. Came for the tasty tidbits, stayed for the hanging. #imac
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    Image of Fractal the Meek Fractal the Meek
    11/04/09

    @phunnyballs: So you like having your ears(/eyes) exploded? #imac
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    Image of Plan303e Plan303e
    11/04/09

    In reply to Steve Jobs' Original Name for the iMac Was So Horrifying It Would Explode Your Ears
    God, I hated those first iMacs. How exactly did those take off? They were pre-OSX, weren't they? Bloody things kept freezing and failing all the time.

    Please don't tell me it was the pretty colors :< #imac
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    11/04/09

    @Plan303e: Do you know why there were no yellow iMacs? #imac
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    11/04/09

    @GitEmSteveDave_ Natural H1N1 Cure: No, why? #imac
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    Image of GitEmSteveDave_HazEnvy GitEmSteveDave_HazEnvy
    11/04/09

    @MacAttack7388: @appletoad: Because all the iMacs were named after fruit colors. Sadly, the only widely known yellow fruits are the lemon and the banay-nay. #imac
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    11/04/09

    In reply to Steve Jobs' Original Name for the iMac Was So Horrifying It Would Explode Your Ears
    The internal code name was 'Columbus' The iMac was going to be a 'dumb' terminal for eduction. It wasn't originally going to have an optical drive. #apple
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