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  • How Steve Jobs saved Apple with the iMac 26 years ago

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    VictorMortimer said:

    And seriously?  "the internet was just really starting to become a thing"?  By 1998 I'd been on the internet for over a decade.  1998 was the year I upgraded from a POTS modem connection to ISDN, ethernet was pretty important by then.
    To the non tech masses, the internet became a thing between around 1993 and 1995, when the WWW jumped out of universities and became something for the “every man” with Netscape.   For most people, especially back then, “the internet” was equivalent to the World Wide Web plus E-Mail.   It wasn’t the interconnected nodes using TCP/IP and providing various services to each other.  To the layman it was synonymous with the World Wide Web. 

    Sure the network itself had been around for a long time — I started use of it in the mid 80s through work but it was not something that the “every man” really had access to.  Either through your company or your university or government job.   And it was a hodgepodge of services like Usenet, UUCP, email, and often required you to know the bang path to your destination. 

    I was working at WordPerfect in 1993 and the local university CS department grad school lab invited our dev team up to see this new “Netscape” thing.  We were all amazed at how cool it was.  By 1995 I had created a small “mall” on the internet with both “store sites and “display ads” for the various customers as well as a classified ad system (specialized market).  But I’m trying to sell “store fronts” and “ad space” a lot of companies wouldn’t touch it as “the internet was for conspiracy theorists and wackos” (yes I heard that sort of message often).  By 1997-1998 everyone was on the internet and it had become common place for businesses to list their “www” address in ads etc.  
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  • Apple Vision Pro is getting more wear time in the surgical theater

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    Stryker showed a preview of an AVP app for help with some sort of joint replacement.   I just saw a quick video of it.  Lots of stuff coming in the medical front from various vendors.  
    watto_cobra

  • Apple speaks out against Epic's contempt of court accusation

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    gatorguy said:
    davidw said:
    For all the damage ($$$) Sweeny has caused Apple, they should publicly declare to everyone that Epic is never going to be on Apple devices! Apple, unlike nearly every vindictive company, has never to my recollection ever dumped on them……or anyone. "Them" being Epic, Spotify, X, Microsoft, Samsung………and the list goes on. In the cases of Epic and Spotify, these companies wouldn't be nearly as successful as they are had it not been for Apple. 
    Apple has never dumped on Microsoft?

    Are you asking because you don't know?

    Or are you putting it in a form of a question to make it seem that you do know the Apple has dumped on Microsoft and making it seem obvious?

    If you have have instances of Apple dumping on Microsoft, then I would think many here would like to know what you know, instead of posting it as a question.
    I find a few hits if searching "Apple blames Microsoft". The most recent has Apple claiming that it's really Microsoft behind the Epic shenanigans
    Which has nothing to do with the question.   “dump on” was defined as making a complaint to a regulatory agency or in court blaming their woes on that company. 

    Apple’s case against Qualcomm might be one to be further looked at.  I don’t remember the details.  
    watto_cobra

  • Apple speaks out against Epic's contempt of court accusation

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    Kierkegaarden said:
    Separately, Epic Games is continuing to press the European Union over Apple. In that case, its criticisms concern what it alleges is Apple's "malicious compliance" in only technically following the laws of the Digital Markets Act.

    If you’re “technically” following the law, are you not acting legally?
    Exactly.  There is no such thing as “malicious compliance” (in the sense meant here).  You either are compliant or not compliant.   Change the criteria if you think that compliance is not enough.  
    watto_cobra

  • Apple will surrender less than a day of earnings to satisfy class action suit

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    While class action suits have their place, lawyers fees should be capped at 5% of the settlement amount.   (Or their abouts).   Most of these class action suits you read about are lawyer driven.  My FB feed is full of sponsored ads trying to drum up enough aggrieved people for whatever to file a suit.   “Did you play Sonic the Hedgehog? You may be owed $2500”.   That sort of nonsense.  (Yes that is approximately a real one on FB now — from memory so the $-amount may be off). 
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