
When the Pentagon Called a Mac a Weapon: How Steve Jobs Turned a 1999 Export Ban into a Marketing Masterstroke
In 1999, Apple's Power Mac G4 was classified as a weapon by the U.S. Pentagon and banned from export to 50 countries due to its supercomputer-level processing power. Rather than downplaying the issue, Steve Jobs leveraged the ban as a bold marketing message, declaring the G4 'the first personal computer ever classified as a weapon' — turning a regulatory crisis into one of tech history's most memorable campaigns.
Source: Tom's Hardware










