If Apple were to ever go away...

pscatespscates
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in General Discussion edited January 2014
...what would you do?



Say something weird and catastrophic happened and on July 1, Apple ceased to exist (just pretend, okay?).



Apple makes no new machines, OS X stays at 10.2.3, etc. As a topper, all existing stuff somehow stops working by October 2003 (just throw that in to head off any "well, I'll just stay with my 17" PowerBook and Jaguar forever..." answers...).







In other words, NOTHING further happens with our favorite fruit company...no new hardware OR software and the current, existing stuff is eventually rendered useless.



How, exactly, would such an event affect you? For those of you making a living in the creative fields, what would you do?



Emotionally and psychologically, how would you feel?



No more iApps, no more AirPort. No more keynotes, no more Macworld, maccentral.com. No more Cinema Displays, no more iPods, no more Safari. Hell, Safari never even made it out of Public Beta status!







This is going to sound silly, but I think I'd learn to drive a truck or something. I don't think I'd enjoy what I do half-as-much if I couldn't do it on a Mac.



Weird? You tell me.



What would you do? Honestly.



Migrate to Windows? Some other OS? Get a life? Just buy a small PC laptop to surf and e-mail on? Buy a tricked-out PC tower and just continue on like nothing happened?



I'm curious. For some reason, I was thinking about this earlier today, after talking to the owner of a Mac-only shop here in town, and hearing her give a fairly "gloom and doom" type of analysis of the state of affairs for her particular little shop.



Just got me thinking, that's all...



I'd learn to drive a truck and then I'd go buy an oil or watercolor kit and learn how to paint.



I'd be an big-rig-drivin', Bob Ross-paintin', CB-talkin' road-hoss sumbitch with a beret and a smock.



With a big blue Apple logo painted on my rig...just to show everyone where I came from.



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  • Reply 1 of 31
    slackulaslackula Posts: 262member
    After contemplating suicide....I'd probably be alright, but would be permanently bummed. I don't make my living working on a Mac, but have a side business (some free-lance video work) I really enjoy. Wouldn't be the same on a Windows machine. It's my creative outlet and brings in extra $$$.... <img src="graemlins/hmmm.gif" border="0" alt="[Hmmm]" />
  • Reply 2 of 31
    slackulaslackula Posts: 262member
    pscates, forgot to ask....What kind of work do you do on your Mac?



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  • Reply 3 of 31
    pscatespscates Posts: 5,847member
    Illustrator, Photoshop...the usual stuff.







    But basically, at this point, my entire life is on there, so I'd really hate to lose it (or change to something else).
  • Reply 4 of 31
    matsumatsu Posts: 6,558member
    Change my sig again: "Did anyone listen to me? Nooo... Ah well."
  • Reply 5 of 31
    kecksykecksy Posts: 1,002member
    If Apple were to disappear off the face of the Earth, I'd buy an Amiga
  • Reply 6 of 31
    mr. macintoshmr. macintosh Posts: 463member
    I wouldnt have a job.
  • Reply 7 of 31
    thegeldingthegelding Posts: 3,230member
    i'd still use a pc at work and get a pc for home and use it about 1/2 to 1/3 as much as i do now....that would make me sad, but would probably make the misses happy....g



    sure wouldn't hang at a pc forum....what would be the point of that?? "hi, i'm thegelding and i really only use my computer when i have to...." i would probably be hanging at help forums alot though.
  • Reply 8 of 31
    emaneman Posts: 7,204member
    I'd get a PC
  • Reply 9 of 31
    discocowdiscocow Posts: 603member
    [quote]Originally posted by EmAn:

    <strong>I'd get a PC</strong><hr></blockquote>



    Would you still post here a bazzillion times a day?
  • Reply 10 of 31
    ast3r3xast3r3x Posts: 5,012member
    i'd build my own PC, load up linux and live it up as good as possible.



    I would hope apple would open source ALL their OS code, as a final F*** you to MS...specially if marklar exists . I think...or at least hope that the open source community would take this code and better linux and software for it.





    man that would really suck though, i honestly am not sure how i would react, i might honestly be close to tears
  • Reply 11 of 31
    ijerryijerry Posts: 615member
    I would round up everybody here and start a new apple-like company, everybody that pitched-in would have stake in the company. i would then ask the help of the former employees of Apple, and rebuild. The computers may not be as pretty, but at least the OS would remain mostly intact on these new computers. I just couldn't use a computer otherwise, okay, maybe i could, but I wouldn't want to.
  • Reply 12 of 31
    ast3r3xast3r3x Posts: 5,012member
    [quote]Originally posted by ijerry:

    <strong>I would round up everybody here and start a new apple-like company, everybody that pitched-in would have stake in the company. i would then ask the help of the former employees of Apple, and rebuild. The computers may not be as pretty, but at least the OS would remain mostly intact on these new computers. I just couldn't use a computer otherwise, okay, maybe i could, but I wouldn't want to.</strong><hr></blockquote>



    yeah i thought about that but we don't really have the resources, i think it would be better for apple to make it open source, then we could work on it with our spare time and it could live on forever, if apple has a version of marklar and released it, would the open source community embrace it?
  • Reply 13 of 31
    ijerryijerry Posts: 615member
    [quote]Originally posted by ast3r3x:

    <strong>



    yeah i thought about that but we don't really have the resources, i think it would be better for apple to make it open source, then we could work on it with our spare time and it could live on forever, if apple has a version of marklar and released it, would the open source community embrace it?</strong><hr></blockquote>



    there would have to be organization though. Too many people working independantly would just screw up everything. We wouldn't need too much money, I think most people would donate stuff for free if it meant they get to keep their OS. Mac users are the only ones that would actually care enough to, IMO.
  • Reply 14 of 31
    emaneman Posts: 7,204member
    [quote]Originally posted by DiscoCow:

    <strong>



    Would you still post here a bazzillion times a day? </strong><hr></blockquote>

    Of course
  • Reply 15 of 31
    slackulaslackula Posts: 262member
    I'd spend a lot more time on my Xbox as it is the only piece of Microsoft hardware I own which doesn't crash daily.
  • Reply 16 of 31
    ibrowseibrowse Posts: 1,749member
    [quote]Originally posted by pscates:

    <strong>Get a life?</strong><hr></blockquote>



    Hahaha, NO. <img src="graemlins/bugeye.gif" border="0" alt="[Skeptical]" /> Don't scare me like that! :eek:
  • Reply 17 of 31
    1337_5l4xx0r1337_5l4xx0r Posts: 1,558member
    First, I'd be hurt. No more Powerbooks.



    Then, for a period of about two months I'd be much more productive (no computer time, no Mac website surfing...), and I'd basically be a new person. It would be the end of a long addiction.



    Then, finally, I'd buy a PC and dive headlong into Linux, as at that point it would be my best option.



    Windows is just... dirty. I suppose I'd be dual-boot though, just to run Adobe and Macromedia apps.
  • Reply 18 of 31
    whisperwhisper Posts: 735member
    I'd be less of a computer geek for sure. Other than that, I'm not sure.
  • Reply 19 of 31
    stunnedstunned Posts: 1,096member
    I 'll go get a Dell.
  • Reply 20 of 31
    bartobarto Posts: 2,246member
    Cry.



    Then cry some more.



    Then get another job and a new computer.



    Barto
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