An old, worn out idea? Come up with something completely new?
What exactly do you want? Do you want Apple to make rocket ships and call them personal computers so they'll be innovative enough? Maybe blenders?
A personal computer is a specific kind of thing now. It is a mathematical device that stores, manipulates and displays encoded textual, visual, auditory, and abstract data.
You wouldn't say "Nike ought to stop making shoes and move on to the next big thing. All these colourful plastics show that innovation has stopped in the shoe industry." On the contraryy, Nike researches plastics and fabrics hoping to find combinations that are more cushioned, allow sweat to evaporate, and so on.
Apple has turned the personal computer from a big, noisy, unstable brute that heats an entire room effectively and which is connected to a forty pound monitor that emits x-rays and is inevitably below eye-level on most modern desks into a small, quiet, cool and stable machine with a screen that has no significant weight and is high enough to keep a user's spine and eyes happy. It has done this while ensuring that the new machine can do everything the old machine could, editing text, photos, video, mathematical equations, calculating protein folds...
Moreover, Apple invents dozens of things that aren't computers every year. The research labs at Apple grind away constantly on idea after idea. Apple has patents on hundreds of things that consumers won't even understand for decades. They don't release them because they know that the market won't stand an idea that's introduced too early, and they learned that from the magneto-optical drive of the Lisa, from the much-lamented Newton, from including sound and graphics capabilities in the original Apple II machines and finding the business community wasn't ready to take a machine that also played music and games seriously, the Apple Desktop Bus which was a precursor of USB, from AppleTalk file-sharing and starting from a network drive, and all the other things they've released over the years that people didn't care about because the ideas were new, and therefore hard to imagine using.
So what should they be making instead of personal computers? And if there is something else they should be making, like the iPod, why not continue to make excellent personal computers too?
<strong>[The macintosh] is an old, warn out idea.</strong><hr></blockquote>
Three Reasons why the mac sucks and is a worn out idea and should go away:
1) OS X is based on Unix. Unix is like 40 years old, so it must, like, suck and stuff.
2) Apple computers look good. I guess this means they must be trying to make up for some kind of shortcoming. Take the BMW for example. It is pretty, but there is nothing behind the gorgeous facade. Any real car would look like a Taurus.
3) Steve jobs is getting kind of plump. My grandpa is plump. My grandpa is old. Thus, Macs suck.
So what should they be making instead of personal computers? And if there is something else they should be making, like the iPod, why not continue to make excellent personal computers too?</strong><hr></blockquote>
They should make some kind of brain chip that can be easily inhaled through the nose. The chip could control your toaster and refrigerator and be based on Windows NT for extra stability.
I always thought soup was a worn out idea. I mean, we've been eating soup for what, 15,000 years? There may be new recepies, but they contain the same old tired ingredients. I say we retire soup and come up with something new.
I think Apple is evolving. Dvorak isn't. Talk about needing to develop something new. John, bubby, you need a new act! I mean what contribution have you made to computing in years? Sure there was that keyboard, but that was ages ago. What? You didn't even develop the Dvorak keyboard?
Nothing lasts forever, remember "Apple // Forever!"? Apple ///, Apple Lisa, then Apple Mac, then the Apple // line got dropped after the //gs got its *ss handed to it by the Atari ST/TT and Commodore Amiga computers.
Same with the 68K Macs, the PowerMacs took it out.
So what is the next step by Apple beyond the PowerMacs? Quantum Computers? AI computers that accept voice commands? Cyberspace Jacks into your brain? :eek: <img src="graemlins/bugeye.gif" border="0" alt="[Skeptical]" /> <img src="graemlins/lol.gif" border="0" alt="[Laughing]" />
<strong>I always thought soup was a worn out idea. I mean, we've been eating soup for what, 15,000 years? There may be new recepies, but they contain the same old tired ingredients. I say we retire soup and come up with something new.</strong><hr></blockquote>
U R A neo-soup fanboy!!! My soup is F-ing fine! Leave my soup alone!
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What exactly do you want? Do you want Apple to make rocket ships and call them personal computers so they'll be innovative enough? Maybe blenders?
A personal computer is a specific kind of thing now. It is a mathematical device that stores, manipulates and displays encoded textual, visual, auditory, and abstract data.
You wouldn't say "Nike ought to stop making shoes and move on to the next big thing. All these colourful plastics show that innovation has stopped in the shoe industry." On the contraryy, Nike researches plastics and fabrics hoping to find combinations that are more cushioned, allow sweat to evaporate, and so on.
Apple has turned the personal computer from a big, noisy, unstable brute that heats an entire room effectively and which is connected to a forty pound monitor that emits x-rays and is inevitably below eye-level on most modern desks into a small, quiet, cool and stable machine with a screen that has no significant weight and is high enough to keep a user's spine and eyes happy. It has done this while ensuring that the new machine can do everything the old machine could, editing text, photos, video, mathematical equations, calculating protein folds...
Moreover, Apple invents dozens of things that aren't computers every year. The research labs at Apple grind away constantly on idea after idea. Apple has patents on hundreds of things that consumers won't even understand for decades. They don't release them because they know that the market won't stand an idea that's introduced too early, and they learned that from the magneto-optical drive of the Lisa, from the much-lamented Newton, from including sound and graphics capabilities in the original Apple II machines and finding the business community wasn't ready to take a machine that also played music and games seriously, the Apple Desktop Bus which was a precursor of USB, from AppleTalk file-sharing and starting from a network drive, and all the other things they've released over the years that people didn't care about because the ideas were new, and therefore hard to imagine using.
So what should they be making instead of personal computers? And if there is something else they should be making, like the iPod, why not continue to make excellent personal computers too?
<strong>[The macintosh] is an old, warn out idea.</strong><hr></blockquote>
Three Reasons why the mac sucks and is a worn out idea and should go away:
1) OS X is based on Unix. Unix is like 40 years old, so it must, like, suck and stuff.
2) Apple computers look good. I guess this means they must be trying to make up for some kind of shortcoming. Take the BMW for example. It is pretty, but there is nothing behind the gorgeous facade. Any real car would look like a Taurus.
3) Steve jobs is getting kind of plump. My grandpa is plump. My grandpa is old. Thus, Macs suck.
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So what should they be making instead of personal computers? And if there is something else they should be making, like the iPod, why not continue to make excellent personal computers too?</strong><hr></blockquote>
They should make some kind of brain chip that can be easily inhaled through the nose. The chip could control your toaster and refrigerator and be based on Windows NT for extra stability.
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--John Dvorak (no relation), PC Magazine
Same with the 68K Macs, the PowerMacs took it out.
So what is the next step by Apple beyond the PowerMacs? Quantum Computers? AI computers that accept voice commands? Cyberspace Jacks into your brain? :eek: <img src="graemlins/bugeye.gif" border="0" alt="[Skeptical]" /> <img src="graemlins/lol.gif" border="0" alt="[Laughing]" />
<strong>I always thought soup was a worn out idea. I mean, we've been eating soup for what, 15,000 years? There may be new recepies, but they contain the same old tired ingredients. I say we retire soup and come up with something new.</strong><hr></blockquote>
U R A neo-soup fanboy!!! My soup is F-ing fine! Leave my soup alone!