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  • Bill Gates equates Steve Jobs' talent to 'casting spells'

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    seanismorris said:
    lkrupp said:
    How long until some bozo saunters in here and regurgitates the “Microsoft saved Apple” myth?
    There were 2 people saved Apple, Jobs and Gates.  Jobs return revitalized Apple.  Gates/Microsoft’s investment created the momentum behind the resurgence.

    In an alternate history, Microsoft doesn’t invest and kills Office for Mac... I’m not sure Apple survives.  If they do, they’re nothing like the Apple of today.  Most likely Jobs dies before his mobile vision becomes reality...

    The death of Apple wouldn’t have been good for Microsoft.  They’ve been forced to reinvent themselves with Azure.  Google with ridiculous amounts of cash probably wins.  Wouldn’t it have been strange if Amazon or Samsung bought Apple...

    Gates saved nothing. There were 300 NeXT Employees who saved Apple. Steve went to everyone of us and asked we didn't bail on him for at least a year after the merger.
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  • Bill Gates equates Steve Jobs' talent to 'casting spells'

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    "I was like a minor wizard because he would be casting spells, and I would see people mesmerized, but because I'm a minor wizard, the spells don't work on me," said Gates.


    Spoken like a moron who has no concept of the many realms that are the Fantasy genre, especially AD&D.

    Or in male/female social gathering parlance, ``I don't see what he has that's so special?''

    ``You mean besides, personality, charisma, insight into the human condition, wit, the ability captivate? If you take those away he still has you beat on looks. But you're right. Without all that you're even.''
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  • The best alternatives to Adobe InDesign for iOS and Mac

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    frank777 said:
    edac2 said:
    But you would be much better off switching to Affinity Publisher than a program built on a 1990's framework.

    This is just wrong. I use InDesign, but even I'm aware that Quark has been fully OS-native for years, and went 64-bit only a few years back.
    The current app is a fully modern one that is now updated on an annual basis.
    You'd be wrong on that. What the person is trying to tell you is that Affinity uses the latest Frameworks available, period. Quark and InDesign generally are three or four major revisions behind. They have a much older install base and thus have a vested interested in not breaking a lot of their code base. Moving to 64 bit isn't a new reality. It's been available in OS X for 12 years now. Affinity literally rewrote Photo, Designer and introduced Publisher now all 1.7 based off of Mojave 10.14 frameworks.
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  • Editorial: WSJ Jony Ive story scoffed at by Apple experts, delicious to critics

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    Tripp Mickle? What? This guy used his porn handle for the WSJ position?
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  • Jony Ive's departure follows years of dissatisfaction and absenteeism

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    If someone at his age and experience needs a mentor coddling him and encouraging him by challenging his work along the entire process from design to finished product you have to wonder how much he really did and how much was Steve cracking the whip constantly.

    He would have hated working for Steve at NeXT because 95% of the time was spent at PIXAR the last three years before we at NeXT merged with Apple.
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