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  1. Otakuninja2006

    What If Apple Released A REAL Gaming Console?

    Let's say that, sometime around say, the mid 2000s, Apple got the courage to give the gaming industry another shot. We all know that the Apple Bandai Pippin failed so bad that it led Apple nearer to bankruptcy and Bandai almost merged with Sega, but by the mid 2000s, Apple was pretty much at...
  2. Lafayette_

    The Beatles Compromise (a Discography)
    Threadmarks: Intro

    Hi all - I've decided to gather the few different entries I've made to the "Rock albums from alternate timelines" thread and post them on a new one, dedicated to a timeline where the Beatles find ways to compromise starting in 1967. I plan to cover their output through 1980. Some albums will be...
  3. The cursed universes of Dana Sibera

    https://newsletter.shifthappens.site/archive/the-cursed-universes-of-dana-sibera/ On the Photoshop creations of Dana Sibera, @NanoRaptor on Twitter and Mastodon. Yeah, this stuff is great and compelling. And the AH potential is discussed by the article's author, the writer of...
  4. TheDetailer

    No Disney, Nintendo, or Apple?

    Disney, Nintendo, and Apple are some of the most influential companies on the planet, having changed the worlds of media, entertainment, and popular culture in so many ways that it’s hard to imagine a word without any of them, from animation, to video games, to technology. But what if these...
  5. WI: Apple Never Buys NeXT Computers

    Founded in 1985 by Steve Jobs after resigning from Apple itself NeXT made computers for specifically designed for higher education and niche business markets and successfully launched two generations of the hardware before shifting to software and focusing on their operating system NeXTSTEP...
  6. SealTheRealDeal

    DBWI Apple gets serious about entering the smart phone market

    So for those of you who have had the good fortune to have never seen an iPhone, here's a screen shot of Steve Jobs revealing the design back in 2007. Yes, it's an iPod Video with a rotary phone wheel. Now aside from having some appeal to hipsters who like eclectic trash, this flopped pretty...
  7. DBWI: Apple Corps fizzles out

    In 1968, The Beatles, arguably the biggest and best band in history, set up their own record label/all purpose company Apple Corps (it pains me to admit I only now figured out the pun) as a vehicle for their own music and films and publishing and whatnot as well as allowing other artists a...
  8. Battle Royale: The Last Generation Of An SNES-CD Saga
    Threadmarks: All Aboard The Battle Bus

    (Author's Note: For all intents and purposes, this is to be treated as Massively Multiplayer: Gaming In The New Millennium. Massively Multiplayer has won its Turtledove, and this shouldn't be considered a new timeline for those purposes. We hit the 10,000 post limit and that's why this topic is...
  9. Michel Van

    AHC: Not Apple, but Xerox Computers

    In 1970 Xerox Palo Alto Research Center (PARC) was founded Already in 1973 they designed first workstation with graphical user interface and computer mouse the Xerox Alto was 10 years ahead of his time Sadly the mother company Xerox was 10 years behind to realize what they got in mean time...
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