June 26, 2006
Airport, eMac, and iSight leave EU Apple Stores
Posted Jun. 26, ’06, 2:17 PM PT by Aaron Freedman
Category | Hardware
As Scott previously mentioned, the online Apple Store has been going down a lot lately. Well, one reason is because eMacs, iSights, and Airport Base Stations have been removed from EU Apple Stores. This removal is due to the fact that the products taken down from the Stores did not comply with the EU’s new environmental laws. In addition to these products leaving the online Apple Store, eMacs, iSights, and Airport Base Stations will no longer be sold in Europe starting June 30. Of course, the removal of these products can also be justified by the fact that they’re outdated and not needed anymore — new eMacs are most likely in development, iSights have been incorporated into all Macs which have screens (my guess is that the next line of Cinema Displays will have built-in iSights), and the Airport Extreme Base Station has already made normal Airport virtually obsolete.
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I have to say, it's moves like this that both make me regret moving over to Apple and will always cause it a problem becoming a mass market force against anything PC. The assumption that if you don't have a webcam for a MAC and want one, you'll just go and buy a new MacBook/Pro or display when they come with built in isights is possibly the most pretencious thing I yet heard from Apple! I figure, as with most PC based users, there are more people with older MACs than new and will be for a while. Add to that the still limited accessories range, who else makes a webcam that works with MACs (1 logitech model) and is everyone on a MAC really IV'd to iChat??? If Apple, while making gains in the market, wishes to truly make that leap forward and become an all round successor to the PC, isn't it about times S Jobs started aiming his thoughts at the customers best interests and not at world domination via his vision of development - his world at least......