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Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, August 28 2012 @ 06:25 PM EDT |
Stolen? Really your Apple fanboy lingo is showing! Apple
shamelessly copied it from Xerox lock stock and barrel. Of
course it was legal to do so because the information was in
the public domain.
When Apple sued Microsoft for stealing its GUI look and
feel, it lost because it was public domain material (and
presumably they weren't able to fix the judge or jury).
As I said, the Mac was a failure. Apple's real innovation
was a marketing idea rather than a technological or
inventive one - figuring out how to market iTunes and Apple
App store.
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- Now, lemme see, - Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, August 29 2012 @ 01:27 PM EDT
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Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, August 28 2012 @ 07:17 PM EDT |
Did you ever use the first Macintosh. I have. As a computer it was pitiful it
could hardly do anything. It impressed some of the non-technical personnel - the
screen looked just like their desktop, and they could point at it, it even had a
waste paper basket. I am 72 years old now and I had spent a lot of time with
real computers when the Macintosh appeared so I was not impressed.
I am not a child so I don't need childish things to play with.
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Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, August 28 2012 @ 07:56 PM EDT |
The Mac was *bought* from Xerox and Jobs polished it. The payment was mostly in
stock.
All Jobs has done is take existing things and polish them until they were
usable. Take a look at feature comparisons between iPhones and other smart
phones of their era. The iPhone nearly always loses. If you add the work
usable to feature and the iPhone nearly always wins.
If you look at the other Steve, you will find real innovation. Removing the cpu
from the drive controller and putting the load on the main system cpu made apple
2 floppy drives cost a fraction of other floppy drives of the time *and* made
them faster. This is a big factor in the apple 2 success and also the PC
revolution.
Interestingly enough, this brilliant innovation wasn't much different that what
was done in asynchronous serial communications then and today. I don't know if
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