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Rhodri Marsden
Journalist and musician Rhodri Marsden has been addressing common technology problems by stripping away the jargon and enlisting the help of readers in his Cyberclinic column in The Independent for the past two years.
Here are two pieces of electronic equipment made by the same company over the last 35 years. One is 1976's Apple I; the other is 2008's Apple iPhone. (If you need a hint as to which one is which, the iPhone is the one that you don't tend to with a can of Mr Sheen and a yellow duster.) I'd actually never seen a picture of an Apple I up until about 15 minutes ago, and I was frankly flabbergasted. Obviously Apple hadn't got Jonathan Ive on board at that stage – not least because he was 9 years old – but it's still a fairly extraordinary-looking piece of machinery.( Read more... )
