![]() But as summer turned into fall, Macintosh sales began to decline. High sales spurred even rosier predictions for the upcoming holiday season. When I ran into him on the floor of the show, he put his arm around my shoulder and exclaimed, "Look at all these applications! We did it! The Macintosh has made it!" Steve Jobs was ebullient, and thought that the sprouting applications and blossoming sales meant that we had turned the corner. Apple had assembled over a dozen small software developers who had written cool applications for the Macintosh, to display them at the trade show. I travelled to the 1984 National Computer Conference show in June 1984 with the Mac team, sharing a hotel room with Burrell Smith, even though I was on leave of absence (see Leave Of Absence). In fact, Apple was able to sell more than 72,000 Macintoshes by end of April, and continued to ramp up to sell over 60,000 units in June 1984 alone. Steve Jobs defined success as selling 50,000 units in the first 100 days, which was a high hurdle for a brand new computer with only a handful of applications available. Opinion: Lizzo's handling of offensive lyric a stark contrast to the 'Suck it up, snowflake' crowd.The original Macintosh enjoyed robust sales following its spectacular launch in January 1984 (see The Times They Are A-Changin').Here are some other offensive terms we should stop saying, too.The controversy is a reminder that other slang terms in our vernacular have derived from more-serious origins, making it important to put more thought behind what we speak. "Spaz" has often been used as slang to describe losing physical or emotional control, but has fallen increasingly out of fashion because of its origin from "spastic," "a form of muscular weakness (spastic paralysis, typical of cerebral palsy," according to Lexico, an online dictionary. ![]() In a Twitter post Tuesday, the singer said an updated version of "Grrrls," the latest single from her coming album, "Special," was released after she learned its lyrics contained "a harmful word." The original lyric that offended fans came from the song’s line, "Do you see this (expletive)? I'm a spaz," with many claiming that "spaz" is an ableist slur. Lizzo changes lyric after backlash over offensive termĪfter being accused of using an ableist slur in her latest track "Grrrls," Lizzo shared an apology and released a new version of her song.
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