June 1997, you were pretty close to losing it all. Wired Magazine published this cover (considered #33 of the top 100 covers) and it pretty much said it all:
But then you came back (with a little help from Bill Gates, ironically) and you managed to create a brand that is synonymous with “design”. Although not always the best design.
Wired Mag revisited their cover this month with this beauty, nailing what Apple has become, Evil Genius:
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I’m looking at a box behind two iMacs full of those horrid hockey pucks. I hope someone was sent packing over to the Death Star in Redmond for that.
Microsoft can always use a few more crappy ideas. They probably stuck him in the Office 2008 or Vista department.