Apple & Big Blue…Whooda thought it?

This may date me a bit, but I remember the 1984 Superbowl commercial where the hammer gets thrown through the big brainwash screen. Then, the brainwasher was IBM and the hammer thrower was Apple. It represented the beginning of the Mac vs. PC battle that has raged steadily ever since. That same year is when Steve Jobs defiantly proclaimed Apple would not go quietly into that good night while “Big Blue” dictated terms to the entire personal computing world.

Fast-forward 30 years.

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