If steve jobs was the genius everyone is sayin he was, how come my iPod didn't stop working when I posted that?
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So should I get an iPhone 4s or wait for the 5?
yes, but that's not indicative because they don't have to bully PC vendors into shipping their OS or browser; they control the hardware too. not saying they would have if they didn't, but wouldn't surprise me. do they bundle other companies' browsers with OSX?
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Has this been posted anywhere yet?
At the moment Apple produces the leading consumer electronic devices. They're very user friendly and Jobs will be remembered for turning around Apple and producing very user friendly products. But that's about it. Apple haven't produced anything truly original - they've just taken existing ideas and made them easier to use. Microsoft has had a far more profound impact on technology - and Google is now leading the way in software. Amazon defined retailing on the internet. Oracle set the standard with databases. Motorola, Ericsson and Nokia paved the way with mobile phones. Apple's big impact is with GUIs.
Jobs was an arsehole. But then every executive in every big company is an arsehole in some way. You've got to remember that these are people who want to be in charge of everyone else. We all remember these kinds of kids from the school ground and these are the kids we didn't like. But yeah... Jobs did a brilliant job at being in charge of Apple.
I fucking hate Excel. Excel-based systems are like bad DIY jobs done at home (badly designed and probably very dangerous).
Jobs was an arsehole. But then every executive in every big company is an arsehole in some way. You've got to remember that these are people who want to be in charge of everyone else. We all remember these kinds of kids from the school ground and these are the kids we didn't like. But yeah... Jobs did a brilliant job at being in charge of Apple.
I fucking hate Excel. Excel-based systems are like bad DIY jobs done at home (badly designed and probably very dangerous).
First GUI was developed by Xerox, Jobs saw it on a tour of Xerox Park in the 70's.
They also did post-script printing.
xerox also invented the mouse. and didn't patent it either. the mouse obviously reached its peak with the apple hockey puck model.
one way to determine jobs's legacy is to imagine a world where he never existed. computers may be slightly more awkward to use - and what else?
one way to determine jobs's legacy is to imagine a world where he never existed. computers may be slightly more awkward to use - and what else?
xerox copied loads of shit.
I'd get more girls
I wasn't saying that Apple aren't an evil company, just using that particular case to explain part of why Microsoft are seen as the "Evil Empire" by some people. Usually the same people who call them "Micro$oft" or some shit.
[em]Slightly[/em] more awkward? I really don't think you're giving Apple enough credit. There's an argument to be made that, without apple, GUIs might never have caught on. Certainly not in the direction that they did.magicbastarder said:
When I heard Steve Jobs had stepped down as CEO, I imagined what would happen if Apple just went away suddenly and I was forced back to using Windows or -- ugh -- Linux. Honestly, if I had to go back to a world where I had to spend a half a day configuring my X86Config file to try and get more than a 640x480 display, I would honestly just quit computers altogether and go become a butcher or something. Nothing is worth that bullshit.
I was under the impression that google are not leading in any way in software and basically do that thing you said about apple up there?
scutter; ? You had some rant about this?
my rant would be along the same lines as my rant on apple. google are no innovators. They are an advertising company but have branched out into copy/improve/destroy territory. They want to have their hands in everything, but mostly wanting to have their hands in everything is motivated by a means to extend their outlets for gathering data on people so they can sell more advertising.
I h8 google but to be fair to them, they do what they do extremely well. I just don't know how they sleep at night with all the underhanded shit that goes on.
#occupyinternetsuperhighwaystreet
still, if they want to pay me loads of money to go work for them and if I ever decide I want to have less of a life than I currently have, I'd probably be agreeable
Google's search was a fairly giant leap forward, I remember first seeing it when it was still a stanford.edu subdomain and it kicked the ass of altavista/yahoo even then.
right it was great, but nothing new. Not sure who was first in there (one of the ones you mentioned or maybe lycos) but they improved things to the extent that they practically wiped everything else out.
indexing has been going on since the dawn of time and I don't necessarily thing google revolutionised how indexing was done. If memory serves the big thing for them was that the speed results are returned is more important to people than the accuracy of the results returned. And they were right.
the original pagerank algorithm was incredible compared to what else was available at the time
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