Yes, it was a disappointment. It lacked color (something the Apple II already had), had buggy software, and all at a price that rivaled the Apple II.
$1,298 for the Apple II
$2,495 for the Macintosh
It completely destroyed the progress they'd made. Jobs took this project opportunistically at a time when Steve Wozniak was recovering from a plane crash. If he'd approached the project more strategically, it could have positioned Apple to take a place in the market share of cheaper PC's of the time.
Steve Jobs single handidly killed Apple's presence in the early PC market by taking his project (handling the development and launch of the first Macintosh) and commandeering it into a monster project.
What was meant to be an affordable alternative to the Apple II, became under Job's supervision a method to take control of the Apple line of computers. He ended up making a less feature-rich Apple II, which rivaled it in price, killing the idea that the computer could compete with other cheaper computers on the market.
Despite high turnover, and lots of complaints, my last company had one of the highest Glassdoor ratings I'd ever seen> How? Simple, they'd pay their employees to do so.
I hesitate to suggest that this may indicate there aren't that many 4.5+ star Japanese food restaurants. Even great resaurants in my area struggle to break the 4.5 barrier.
Agreed. People lie to me all of the time. Heck, half the time my anecdotal stories are probably riddled with confident inaccuracies. We are socially trained to take information from people critically and weight it based on all kinds of factors.
$1,298 for the Apple II $2,495 for the Macintosh
It completely destroyed the progress they'd made. Jobs took this project opportunistically at a time when Steve Wozniak was recovering from a plane crash. If he'd approached the project more strategically, it could have positioned Apple to take a place in the market share of cheaper PC's of the time.