Apple Software Dispatch: The Mac App Store from 1993!
3,849We're all used to app stores on our computers and mobile devices, powered by the Internet. But there was an equivalent in the early 90s designed for a less connected era.
Sources:
Editorial about Apple #1 PC manufacturer: "Amid price war, there is a light at the end of the tunnel", Stewart Alsop, InfoWorld. July 27, 1992.
Video from 1992 sales presentation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tc_WWRwdXRg
Apple product lineup image: http://www.macmothership.com/gallery/gallerytextindex.html
Sculley/Spindler internal video from 1992: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WZuh-uDbf2U
Apple IIe image: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/06/Apple_IIe_running_ProDOS.jpg
Computer industry growth article: "Strong growth predicted for high-tech industry", Gary Anthes. Computerworld, January 18.1993.
Windows 3.1 commercial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5tZjpsTHCPI
Windows 95 launch video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y0CRWAz09r8
Macintosh factory video (part 1): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KUjyh2Fhnuk
Macintosh factory video (part 2): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k1nG2Uo5avM
Power Mac 7100 image: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Power_Macintosh_7100-80_-_front.jpg
Apple Icon Garden image: https://betaknowledge.nearfuturelaboratory.com/post/40937149436/the-apple-icon-garden
CompUSA store photo: https://www.resetera.com/threads/i-miss-compusa.121409/
MacConnection 1994 catalog: https://vintageapple.org/catalogs/
USRobotics modem photo: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/7a/Modem-usr-courier-v34-front-online.jpg
Apple 1994 sales figures, Computerworld, Jan. 22, 1996.
Software Dispatch vol. 1 images: https://68kmla.org/forums/index.php?/topic/55324-apple-software-dispatch-from-1994/&do=findComment&comment=587366
AppleCD 300 advertisement: Popular Science, December 1993.
Software Dispatch news articles: Computerworld, October 11, 1993; InfoWorld, October 11, 1993; Macworld, May 1994; PC Magazine, December 21, 1993.
Rainbow software dongle image: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/97/Dongle_Sentinel_Microphar_for_Logitrace-5958.jpg
On Hand Japanese edition image: https://page.auctions.yahoo.co.jp/jp/auction/r307436539
SoftBank Ibaraki store photo: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/SoftBank_Hankyu-Ibaraki.JPG
Apple Infinite Loop image: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c8/Applecomputerheadquarters.jpg
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