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The Pixar connection

Apple played on the iMac G4’s similarities to Pixar’s mascot, Luxo Jr. In an Apple ad, an anthropomorphic iMac G4 sits in a shop window and reacts to people as they walk past. When a man sticks his tongue out at the iMac, it cheekily opens its optical drive in response.

H follow the revolutionary success of the iMac G3 was something of a problem for Apple. After all, it was the device that saved Apple. A

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