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Reviewer: ProcrastinatingReader ( talk · contribs) 12:45, 9 November 2022 (UTC)
Will try to review in the next few days.
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I don't want to intrude on the review, but I wanted to point out some immediate things that jumped out at me when I saw this article in the review queue: you've got a disagreement between this article and linked articles (the Mac mini in the current lineup section is given as "4th gen: M1, 3rd gen: Intel Core i5, i7" but the Mac mini calls it the 5th and 4th generation), and sites like apple-history and Everymac are fan-run by people with no professional/expert qualifications and no fact-checking; they really shouldn't be used as sources unless you can justify them as reliable. Der Wohltemperierte Fuchs talk 16:03, 9 November 2022 (UTC)
Footnote comments based on Special:Permalink/1121499474:
Seems like the article is largely based on web sources, many of them Apple-focused news sites (9to5mac, macworld, etc). At this point, Apple's history must be well covered in literature, so it's slightly surprising to see very few books etc cited? (where they are cited, they seem to be for very short amounts of content) ProcrastinatingReader ( talk) 17:43, 13 November 2022 (UTC)
Overall, prose is nice and the article is a solid summary of the Mac. Initial comments follow:
In 1994, Apple's market share fell to 8.5% compared to market leader Compaq's 10.3%-- fell from? Or could be worth mentioning peak market share earlier in the section. (on that note, probably doesn't hurt to mention its current market share)
The iMac was a critical and commercial success, with Apple selling 800,000 units in 139 days, resulting in an annual profit of US$309 million in 1998, Apple's first profitable year since 1995-- resulting in -> contributing to? Reads slightly confusing to me otherwise, as 139 days isn't a year, so the iMac can't (alone) result in that annual profit.
However, the iMac's bundled USB Mouse received criticism for its non-traditional circular "hockey puck" shape-- anything more specific on the criticism of the product? Was the mouse bad/awkward to use? Or did people just not like the design?
More than 140,000 preorders were placed for the iBook before it began shipping in September 1999,[48] and was the best selling portable computer in the U.S during the fourth quarter of 1999"and it was the"? Although you may want to vary the sentence structure (compare to prev sentence), of either this or the preceding one. Probably rephrasing the preceding one is better.
while also not including a monitor-- unclear relevance? esp as the Power Mac G4 also didn't include a monitor. Did other Apple products at the time include monitors, or was it an industry standard to include one?
These materials are billed as environmentally friendlytense?
Design chief Jony Ive guided products towards a minimalist and simple feel,[84] including the elimination of replaceable batteries in notebooks.[85]reword and could perhaps expand on his other design decisions, incl expanding on the minimalist design theme and its reception.
the keyboard can only be serviced at an Apple Store or authorized service centertense
macOS features the Aqua user interface, which has been described as "highly intuitive"by who? Is there anything else to say about the interface?
I'm currenly working on making I've made wide-ranging improvements to the flow & writing of this article, inspired by
User:DFlhb/Mac (GPT), a fun experiment. In addition to copyedits, I also made (or am making, some aren't done yet) several substantial content changes, to either clarify things (the reasons for Intel transition), add noteworthy detail (the benefits of Apple choosing NeXT; the quality control issues faced in the 90s, the significance of the Back to the Mac effort), or remove excessive detail (watercooled Power Macs, updates to Boot Camp). Sourcing has also been improved. Not all of these edits are submitted yet; I'll update this post to say when I'm done.
User:ProcSock, sorry for not thinking of these changes before you did your first-pass review. But I think these are substantial improvements, and hopefully we'll have a kick-ass Good Article! I'll obviously also continue working on the outstanding issues you already pointed out above. Got quite a few ideas for both the software and hardware sections. Done
DFlhb (
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02:02, 4 December 2022 (UTC); edited to remove the middle paragraph; no longer think that was a good proposal 05:14, 5 December 2022 (UTC)
Changes seem substantial enough to basically re-review ( diff). So resetting the checklist above. Comments:
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Macs are known for their ease of use and minimalist designs, and are popular among students, creative professionals, and software engineers.source? And why these groups in particular?
History
Reflected Jobs' interest in typography, it came bundled with a variety of fonts.ce needed. Also, is there anything interesting to say about the typography, esp compared to competing products, other than it just coming with lots of fonts? (besides, was this even unusual then?)
Sales initially met projections, but then sputtered as customers were polarized by its groundbreaking interfacefinding this hard to reconcile w/ footnote... Who were these 'customers'? Sounds like Apple made a computer targeted at the mass market, but the main customerbase was still people who liked terminal prompts? If so, worth clarifying, and if not, same.
and Jobs became publicly embroiled with CEO John Sculley; Jobs left to found NeXTmaybe don't put in separate clause, eg "and Jobs left Apple [to found NeXT] after becoming publicly embroiled with CEO John Sculley", ie focusing that part on him leaving (along with other developers). Up to you.
one of the few remaining members of the Macintosh teamfew remaining, period (ie team was downscaled), or one of the few who was also in the original Mac team?
However, this unwillingness to compromise on featuresI'm confused how
made the Mac more open and expandable to appeal to tech enthusiasts and make inroads in the enterprise marketis an "unwillingness to compromise on features"? clarification needed?
flooded the market with Mac models targeting every nicheeg? and/or what niches?
Current lineup
Software
@ ProcrastinatingReader: My apologies for only seeing this a month late; my watchlist is very crowded, and I didn't see this page. Will respond imminently; this re-review is much appreciated! DFlhb ( talk) 23:23, 21 March 2023 (UTC)
ProcrastinatingReader, DFlhb, what is the status of this review? It has been open for over five months, and there haven't been any significant edits yet this month. Has everything necessary been done, or is there a lot still left to be accomplished? BlueMoonset ( talk) 23:19, 13 April 2023 (UTC)
, with the Lisa's graphical interfacedoesn't quite fit on that sentence. It would probably make the most sense to put in a line about the Xerox/Lisa connection at the end of the paragraph after Jobs taking control so that it can be placed in context.
The word processing program at Xerox had used double-clicks to select words, but the Lisa group used that function for other things as well,and
Take the menu bar, that row of words that rests on the white space at the top of every Macintosh application. If you move the cursor over one of the words, like FILE, EDIT, FONT, or SPECIAL, you get Apple's successor to Xerox PARC's pop-up menu-the pull-down menu. This drops like a window shade, with a list of words representing a command that will be enacted when the cursor finds its way over the proper word.Levy's point seems to be that the Apple software was much more intuitive and than the Xerox software:
A look at the evolution of the Lisa interface, however, shows that much more was involved than lifting a Trinitron from Xerox's living room. With the discipline of the marketplace looming over them, Lisa's engineers realized that PARC's ideas had to be stripped down and rebuilt to more demanding specifications. By the time Tesler arrived in mid-1980, Apple already had clarified some of PARC's ideas, making them friendlier to novice users. One of the primary differences was the implementation of something called direct manipulation-the ability to reach into cyberspace and get things done without any mediation. In the PARC world, things mostly got done by moving the cursor over selections on pop-up menus. With Lisa, however, you could manipulate almost anything on the screen, often without reverting to the middleman of menusRather that the vague "far beyond" and listing features, maybe it would make more sense to use a specific feature (like drag-and-drop) as example of progress or fundamental differences or whatever?
presages a revolution [...] in personal computing.A prose consideration: I'd either use more of the quote or none of it (described as revolutionary by the New York Times.) as the current wording reads awkward.
Honan, Mat (October 12, 2011). "iCloud Is a Bigger Deal Than You Think: It's the Future of Computing". Gizmodo. Archived from the original on February 10, 2023. Retrieved February 10, 2023.does not verify Tim Cook, first, or keynote from the preceding sentence; the end of paragraph sources do that. Why not move this stray source to the end of the paragraph so that it's clear that all 3 sources together verify it? That's a nitpick though; it passes.
Summary: Check those early bits out in the 1979–1996: "Macintosh" era that I mentioned above and let me know how you handle it. Since the only problems were in that section, I'll probably peek into at least one more citation there. Outside of that section the article passes Criteria 2. Rjjiii ( talk) 05:49, 9 July 2023 (UTC)
Summary: This passes criteria six by a good ways. Rjjiii ( talk) 06:05, 9 July 2023 (UTC)
These all pass. No edit wars. No NPOV violations. Covers the main aspects. Stays on topic. I'll do Criteria 1 sometime soon. Rjjiii ( talk) 06:07, 9 July 2023 (UTC)
Confusing language:
which brought the Mac to the same ARM architecture as iOS devices.
made of translucent plastic in "Bondi blue" color.The image shows 5 colors. Did it come in only one color at first? Not clear from the article text.
, maintaining a high degree of control over the end-product.This seems to anticipate a criticism about Apple's reliance on Asian manufacturing or maybe Foxconn specifically. If that's what it's getting at, either it should be omitted or the criticism should be put into context.
Over the years, Mac OS X was rebranded to OS X, and is now known as macOS.It was rebranded twice?
Grammar errors:
strengths liedlay
an all-in-one computer which wasthat was
trend-settertrendsetter (I think?)
It was best selling laptop in the U.S. during the fourth quarter of 1999.
Layout:
The "Current Mac laptop and desktop computers" is really wonky. If you do take this to FA status, you should check out Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Tables, but that's not required for GA listing.
I think it just barely slips by the GA criteria's subset of the manual of style. The lists sections says Embedded lists are lists used within articles that supplement the article's prose content. They are included in the text-proper or appended, and may be in table format.
which definitely covers the "Mac models in production" but the one with the images is more using the table for layout than as a table. And
MOS:PARA talks about bulleted lists Bullet points should not be used in the lead of an article, and should be used in the body only to break up a mass of text, particularly if the topic requires significant effort to comprehend.
Even though I had comments here, Criteria 1 passes. Rjjiii ( talk) 07:34, 9 July 2023 (UTC)
The iMac still has yet to get a pro version. 23emr ( talk) 14:43, 17 January 2023 (UTC)
I'm currently changing all links to Macintosh to instead point to Mac (computer).
Rationale:
I'm hoping that directly linking to the article will bump it up in the list, back to where it used to be just months ago. I don't believe this is an {{ R with possibilities}}, so it seems fine to replace. DFlhb ( talk) 14:09, 20 January 2023 (UTC)
known as Macintosh until 1999. We should not be changing Macintosh to Mac for articles clearly talking about older computers. Wikipedia is for readers, please don't make content changes just to make readership counters work better. ~ Kvng ( talk) 14:03, 23 January 2023 (UTC)
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The Mac (known as the Macintosh until 1999) is a family of personal computers designed and marketed by Apple Inc. The product lineup includes the MacBook Air and MacBook Pro laptops, and the iMac, Mac Mini, Mac Studio, and Mac Pro desktops. Macs are sold with the macOS operating system, previously known as OS X. The Macintosh project was conceived by Jef Raskin in 1979 and then redefined in 1981 by Apple co-founder Steve Jobs, the first model being introduced in 1984 through an advertisement played during Super Bowl XVIII. The product evolved with the introduction of color in 1987 with the Macintosh II, and a new processor line in the Power Macintosh in 1994. Through most of the 1990s, the Mac was not fully competitive with commodity IBM PC compatibles. Steve Jobs returned to Apple in 1996 and subsequently returned the Mac to the mainstream with the launch of the iMac series OS X. Many users, especially professionals, felt that the Mac was neglected during the 2010s under CEO Tim Cook, but a new line of Macs with the Apple silicon chipset has received more positive reviews. This photograph shows Jobs with the first Mac, at the time of its launch on January 24, 1984. The image on the computer screen is a digitized version of A Woman Combing Her Hair, a painting by the Japanese artist Goyō Hashiguchi. Photograph credit: Bernard Gotfryd; edited by W.carter and Janke
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Shawn Teller, you've reinstated copyedits that I had previously reverted, so I'll explain my first revert:
first releasedin 1984; it was only released once, in 1984
initially being successful at firstis clunkier than
initial success, and not grammatically correct
brought Steve Jobs back to Apple to invigorate it(bolded insertion) — this speculates on the reasons Jobs was brought to Apple, in a way that is not present in sources (and whose motivations are we describing? Amelio's?)
Please do not reinstate disputed edits like this; see WP:BRD. DFlhb ( talk) 16:34, 4 April 2023 (UTC)
Considering it is complete Serouj2000 ( talk) 20:55, 6 June 2023 (UTC)
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Reviewer: ProcrastinatingReader ( talk · contribs) 12:45, 9 November 2022 (UTC)
Will try to review in the next few days.
GA review – see WP:WIAGA for criteria
I don't want to intrude on the review, but I wanted to point out some immediate things that jumped out at me when I saw this article in the review queue: you've got a disagreement between this article and linked articles (the Mac mini in the current lineup section is given as "4th gen: M1, 3rd gen: Intel Core i5, i7" but the Mac mini calls it the 5th and 4th generation), and sites like apple-history and Everymac are fan-run by people with no professional/expert qualifications and no fact-checking; they really shouldn't be used as sources unless you can justify them as reliable. Der Wohltemperierte Fuchs talk 16:03, 9 November 2022 (UTC)
Footnote comments based on Special:Permalink/1121499474:
Seems like the article is largely based on web sources, many of them Apple-focused news sites (9to5mac, macworld, etc). At this point, Apple's history must be well covered in literature, so it's slightly surprising to see very few books etc cited? (where they are cited, they seem to be for very short amounts of content) ProcrastinatingReader ( talk) 17:43, 13 November 2022 (UTC)
Overall, prose is nice and the article is a solid summary of the Mac. Initial comments follow:
In 1994, Apple's market share fell to 8.5% compared to market leader Compaq's 10.3%-- fell from? Or could be worth mentioning peak market share earlier in the section. (on that note, probably doesn't hurt to mention its current market share)
The iMac was a critical and commercial success, with Apple selling 800,000 units in 139 days, resulting in an annual profit of US$309 million in 1998, Apple's first profitable year since 1995-- resulting in -> contributing to? Reads slightly confusing to me otherwise, as 139 days isn't a year, so the iMac can't (alone) result in that annual profit.
However, the iMac's bundled USB Mouse received criticism for its non-traditional circular "hockey puck" shape-- anything more specific on the criticism of the product? Was the mouse bad/awkward to use? Or did people just not like the design?
More than 140,000 preorders were placed for the iBook before it began shipping in September 1999,[48] and was the best selling portable computer in the U.S during the fourth quarter of 1999"and it was the"? Although you may want to vary the sentence structure (compare to prev sentence), of either this or the preceding one. Probably rephrasing the preceding one is better.
while also not including a monitor-- unclear relevance? esp as the Power Mac G4 also didn't include a monitor. Did other Apple products at the time include monitors, or was it an industry standard to include one?
These materials are billed as environmentally friendlytense?
Design chief Jony Ive guided products towards a minimalist and simple feel,[84] including the elimination of replaceable batteries in notebooks.[85]reword and could perhaps expand on his other design decisions, incl expanding on the minimalist design theme and its reception.
the keyboard can only be serviced at an Apple Store or authorized service centertense
macOS features the Aqua user interface, which has been described as "highly intuitive"by who? Is there anything else to say about the interface?
I'm currenly working on making I've made wide-ranging improvements to the flow & writing of this article, inspired by
User:DFlhb/Mac (GPT), a fun experiment. In addition to copyedits, I also made (or am making, some aren't done yet) several substantial content changes, to either clarify things (the reasons for Intel transition), add noteworthy detail (the benefits of Apple choosing NeXT; the quality control issues faced in the 90s, the significance of the Back to the Mac effort), or remove excessive detail (watercooled Power Macs, updates to Boot Camp). Sourcing has also been improved. Not all of these edits are submitted yet; I'll update this post to say when I'm done.
User:ProcSock, sorry for not thinking of these changes before you did your first-pass review. But I think these are substantial improvements, and hopefully we'll have a kick-ass Good Article! I'll obviously also continue working on the outstanding issues you already pointed out above. Got quite a few ideas for both the software and hardware sections. Done
DFlhb (
talk)
02:02, 4 December 2022 (UTC); edited to remove the middle paragraph; no longer think that was a good proposal 05:14, 5 December 2022 (UTC)
Changes seem substantial enough to basically re-review ( diff). So resetting the checklist above. Comments:
Lead
Macs are known for their ease of use and minimalist designs, and are popular among students, creative professionals, and software engineers.source? And why these groups in particular?
History
Reflected Jobs' interest in typography, it came bundled with a variety of fonts.ce needed. Also, is there anything interesting to say about the typography, esp compared to competing products, other than it just coming with lots of fonts? (besides, was this even unusual then?)
Sales initially met projections, but then sputtered as customers were polarized by its groundbreaking interfacefinding this hard to reconcile w/ footnote... Who were these 'customers'? Sounds like Apple made a computer targeted at the mass market, but the main customerbase was still people who liked terminal prompts? If so, worth clarifying, and if not, same.
and Jobs became publicly embroiled with CEO John Sculley; Jobs left to found NeXTmaybe don't put in separate clause, eg "and Jobs left Apple [to found NeXT] after becoming publicly embroiled with CEO John Sculley", ie focusing that part on him leaving (along with other developers). Up to you.
one of the few remaining members of the Macintosh teamfew remaining, period (ie team was downscaled), or one of the few who was also in the original Mac team?
However, this unwillingness to compromise on featuresI'm confused how
made the Mac more open and expandable to appeal to tech enthusiasts and make inroads in the enterprise marketis an "unwillingness to compromise on features"? clarification needed?
flooded the market with Mac models targeting every nicheeg? and/or what niches?
Current lineup
Software
@ ProcrastinatingReader: My apologies for only seeing this a month late; my watchlist is very crowded, and I didn't see this page. Will respond imminently; this re-review is much appreciated! DFlhb ( talk) 23:23, 21 March 2023 (UTC)
ProcrastinatingReader, DFlhb, what is the status of this review? It has been open for over five months, and there haven't been any significant edits yet this month. Has everything necessary been done, or is there a lot still left to be accomplished? BlueMoonset ( talk) 23:19, 13 April 2023 (UTC)
, with the Lisa's graphical interfacedoesn't quite fit on that sentence. It would probably make the most sense to put in a line about the Xerox/Lisa connection at the end of the paragraph after Jobs taking control so that it can be placed in context.
The word processing program at Xerox had used double-clicks to select words, but the Lisa group used that function for other things as well,and
Take the menu bar, that row of words that rests on the white space at the top of every Macintosh application. If you move the cursor over one of the words, like FILE, EDIT, FONT, or SPECIAL, you get Apple's successor to Xerox PARC's pop-up menu-the pull-down menu. This drops like a window shade, with a list of words representing a command that will be enacted when the cursor finds its way over the proper word.Levy's point seems to be that the Apple software was much more intuitive and than the Xerox software:
A look at the evolution of the Lisa interface, however, shows that much more was involved than lifting a Trinitron from Xerox's living room. With the discipline of the marketplace looming over them, Lisa's engineers realized that PARC's ideas had to be stripped down and rebuilt to more demanding specifications. By the time Tesler arrived in mid-1980, Apple already had clarified some of PARC's ideas, making them friendlier to novice users. One of the primary differences was the implementation of something called direct manipulation-the ability to reach into cyberspace and get things done without any mediation. In the PARC world, things mostly got done by moving the cursor over selections on pop-up menus. With Lisa, however, you could manipulate almost anything on the screen, often without reverting to the middleman of menusRather that the vague "far beyond" and listing features, maybe it would make more sense to use a specific feature (like drag-and-drop) as example of progress or fundamental differences or whatever?
presages a revolution [...] in personal computing.A prose consideration: I'd either use more of the quote or none of it (described as revolutionary by the New York Times.) as the current wording reads awkward.
Honan, Mat (October 12, 2011). "iCloud Is a Bigger Deal Than You Think: It's the Future of Computing". Gizmodo. Archived from the original on February 10, 2023. Retrieved February 10, 2023.does not verify Tim Cook, first, or keynote from the preceding sentence; the end of paragraph sources do that. Why not move this stray source to the end of the paragraph so that it's clear that all 3 sources together verify it? That's a nitpick though; it passes.
Summary: Check those early bits out in the 1979–1996: "Macintosh" era that I mentioned above and let me know how you handle it. Since the only problems were in that section, I'll probably peek into at least one more citation there. Outside of that section the article passes Criteria 2. Rjjiii ( talk) 05:49, 9 July 2023 (UTC)
Summary: This passes criteria six by a good ways. Rjjiii ( talk) 06:05, 9 July 2023 (UTC)
These all pass. No edit wars. No NPOV violations. Covers the main aspects. Stays on topic. I'll do Criteria 1 sometime soon. Rjjiii ( talk) 06:07, 9 July 2023 (UTC)
Confusing language:
which brought the Mac to the same ARM architecture as iOS devices.
made of translucent plastic in "Bondi blue" color.The image shows 5 colors. Did it come in only one color at first? Not clear from the article text.
, maintaining a high degree of control over the end-product.This seems to anticipate a criticism about Apple's reliance on Asian manufacturing or maybe Foxconn specifically. If that's what it's getting at, either it should be omitted or the criticism should be put into context.
Over the years, Mac OS X was rebranded to OS X, and is now known as macOS.It was rebranded twice?
Grammar errors:
strengths liedlay
an all-in-one computer which wasthat was
trend-settertrendsetter (I think?)
It was best selling laptop in the U.S. during the fourth quarter of 1999.
Layout:
The "Current Mac laptop and desktop computers" is really wonky. If you do take this to FA status, you should check out Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Tables, but that's not required for GA listing.
I think it just barely slips by the GA criteria's subset of the manual of style. The lists sections says Embedded lists are lists used within articles that supplement the article's prose content. They are included in the text-proper or appended, and may be in table format.
which definitely covers the "Mac models in production" but the one with the images is more using the table for layout than as a table. And
MOS:PARA talks about bulleted lists Bullet points should not be used in the lead of an article, and should be used in the body only to break up a mass of text, particularly if the topic requires significant effort to comprehend.
Even though I had comments here, Criteria 1 passes. Rjjiii ( talk) 07:34, 9 July 2023 (UTC)
The iMac still has yet to get a pro version. 23emr ( talk) 14:43, 17 January 2023 (UTC)
I'm currently changing all links to Macintosh to instead point to Mac (computer).
Rationale:
I'm hoping that directly linking to the article will bump it up in the list, back to where it used to be just months ago. I don't believe this is an {{ R with possibilities}}, so it seems fine to replace. DFlhb ( talk) 14:09, 20 January 2023 (UTC)
known as Macintosh until 1999. We should not be changing Macintosh to Mac for articles clearly talking about older computers. Wikipedia is for readers, please don't make content changes just to make readership counters work better. ~ Kvng ( talk) 14:03, 23 January 2023 (UTC)
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The Mac (known as the Macintosh until 1999) is a family of personal computers designed and marketed by Apple Inc. The product lineup includes the MacBook Air and MacBook Pro laptops, and the iMac, Mac Mini, Mac Studio, and Mac Pro desktops. Macs are sold with the macOS operating system, previously known as OS X. The Macintosh project was conceived by Jef Raskin in 1979 and then redefined in 1981 by Apple co-founder Steve Jobs, the first model being introduced in 1984 through an advertisement played during Super Bowl XVIII. The product evolved with the introduction of color in 1987 with the Macintosh II, and a new processor line in the Power Macintosh in 1994. Through most of the 1990s, the Mac was not fully competitive with commodity IBM PC compatibles. Steve Jobs returned to Apple in 1996 and subsequently returned the Mac to the mainstream with the launch of the iMac series OS X. Many users, especially professionals, felt that the Mac was neglected during the 2010s under CEO Tim Cook, but a new line of Macs with the Apple silicon chipset has received more positive reviews. This photograph shows Jobs with the first Mac, at the time of its launch on January 24, 1984. The image on the computer screen is a digitized version of A Woman Combing Her Hair, a painting by the Japanese artist Goyō Hashiguchi. Photograph credit: Bernard Gotfryd; edited by W.carter and Janke
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Shawn Teller, you've reinstated copyedits that I had previously reverted, so I'll explain my first revert:
first releasedin 1984; it was only released once, in 1984
initially being successful at firstis clunkier than
initial success, and not grammatically correct
brought Steve Jobs back to Apple to invigorate it(bolded insertion) — this speculates on the reasons Jobs was brought to Apple, in a way that is not present in sources (and whose motivations are we describing? Amelio's?)
Please do not reinstate disputed edits like this; see WP:BRD. DFlhb ( talk) 16:34, 4 April 2023 (UTC)
Considering it is complete Serouj2000 ( talk) 20:55, 6 June 2023 (UTC)