Good lord! How old is Apple’s ergonomics page?!
Wow. It looks like Apple’s ergonomics web page predates the internet. Is that an Apple II that 1st guy is using? No wonder he’s suffering from “lightning bolt neck”.
Oddly, besides that Apple II-looking thing, there’s not a Mac to be found in any of Apple’s “ergonomic no-no’s” drawings. I suppose the indication here is that unlike PCs, it is impossible for a Mac to cause harm to a human. I think its the 1st law of Mac computing or something.
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Hah – Great find…
Must of been an *especially* slow day for you if you spent it trolling the apple about pages
Tell me about it, SirCrumpet.
You have no idea how hard it is to keep up this insane level of quality on a daily basis..
-The Doc
It’s even funnier than you think.
The terminal featured in the example on the lower left appears to be an IBM 3278, which means Apple was
actually flirting with the then-enemy IBM when writing the page!
(You still see the ghost of the old 3278 in the various banking and inventory control systems. Whenever you see
a screen with inscrutable prompts and fixed with fonts with a black background, you’re most likely looking at
a 3278 display, even when you’re seeing it on a PC or Mac).
Apple really can’t update those pages because the majority of their sales today come from ergonomic nightmares: notebook computers.
What is that thing with a wire coming out of the man’s ear? Is it part of his neural interface or is it some ancient communications device?
Actually, considering the majority of their sales are now portables, they should change those illustrations to a guy using a Macbook
If I asked you to duck my sick,
reversing the s and d of course dummy.
In 30 years would you be wondering how OLD my request is?
Same diff moron.
Anon,
Well, yes, actually. Probably even more than with Apple’s ergonomics page, in fact.
If I were into that sort of thing, odds are you would be pushing at least 50 or 60 by then, and odds are age would be an issue.
But then, I’m shallow.
-The Doc
It seems that apple has actually removed the page and just written plain text now.
LeAsrale, you need to click those side links to see the pics, they are on the sub pages.
Using your own products on a page like this could lead to the legal argument that they were designed with known defects. The focus is clearly supposed to be on the problematic positions the human is using. Demonstrating that even your competitors’ products have these problems is probably the best way of giving advice without incriminating yourself.
It’s not as if this page really needs updating. All of the issues with good posture are the same as they were in the 1980s, so it’s hardly surprising that the images weren’t updated. It’s not as if the webpage looks like it was created with 1980s web design tools, it just has content that didn’t really need to be changed.
Slow news day, indeed.
“Lightning Bolt Neck” – I wish I had one of those.
Let me ask you a question: how much has the human body changed since those drawings were made?
The ergonomics are the same, even if the illustrations are lame.
maybe Psystar has a better ergonomics page
they list a common cause of having a bent neck when working, as being unable to touch type.
i love their simple to the point mac styled solution. “learn to touch type”
The drawing of the guy squinting at the PC (?) is a joke. The screens on the first Macs were so small you could hardly see the letters. You had to put your face right up to the screen.
The “PC” in the lower pictures could be one of several different models of old Apple and Mac machines. The Apple IIgs for example, or at least a dozen PowerPC types.
This is kinda a lame story. I didn’t know ergonomics were limited to Macs…
I hate lightning bolt neck! I’ve got an iMac though. The screen is so huge that it is impossible to get neck
pains though, pretty sweet. Good find.
apple seems to have “removed” these images, if they even existed in the first place ….
Gordons: the images are on the linked pages accessible on the right of the page linked to. A little searching would have found them quickly.
Sheesh!
I just checked on archive and the images still exist and all the dates are there if any of you go and check it out
Me thinks you need to get a life instead of sitting in front of the computer looking for crap like this!
Lighting bolt neck is nothing compared to Thunder Cheeks. *runs for cover* I love the idea of Apple intimating that only PC are saddled with ergonomic issues.