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  • Apple suggests that it has permanently exited the stand-alone monitor business

    sirdirsirdir
    Well, I guess in the end we have to be glad that they keep making Macs…
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  • Google I/O 2016: Android's failure to innovate hands Apple free run at WWDC

    sirdirsirdir
    I disagree. I really hope Apple will have half as much innovation at their WWDC. 
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  • New York law could allow roadside 'textalyzer' checks for distracted driving

    sirdirsirdir
    Don't know American law but I don't think sticking to your constitutional rights should have any negative consequences.
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  • Steve Jobs left Apple on his own, wasn't forced out, Wozniak says

    sirdirsirdir
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by iamnemani View Post

     

     

    Actually, that is not true. Apple I was heavily based on Altair 8800, which is widely recognized as the machine that started the PC revolution in 1974. At the time Apple I was less capable, and was also considered a hobbyist machine while the Altair 8800 was featured on magazine covers and was there for pre-orders. Ofcourse, with Apple II things really took a different turn.

     

    So, while the team of Woz and Jobs can be credited with building 'a good personal computer' and making it wildly successful, I don't think it is enough to say he/they 'invented' it.


    I'd say the difference between the altair and the Apple I is larger than the difference between the Apple I and the Apple II.

    The altair had a few switches and a few leds, that's it. No keyboard, no screen, no firmware, no bootloader, nothting

     

    And of course, Jobs hasn't invented the GUI either, he has 'just' seen the potential of the Xerox invention and his crew improved it.

    MacsAlways

  • Steve Jobs left Apple on his own, wasn't forced out, Wozniak says

    sirdirsirdir
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by ThePixelDoc View Post





    Don't forget that regardless of what they both showed, almost no one believed in the Apple I.



    Steve Jobs' persistence (and a whole host of negative qualities) is what made him essential to the the success of Apple... including being a smelly assh0le hippy.



    You can't mix and match ingredients here like a cake. He was who he was and that's a large part of what made him special, and of course despised and hated.



    It's something that many geniuses have in common unfortunately.



    As I said, it needed them both, they are equally important. One couldn't have succeeded without the other. I can't see any contradiction to my point here.

     

    Maybe one difference: Woz would have been happy as a simple engineer, Jobs really wanted to change the world, and together with Woz, he ended up doing so. 

    MacsAlways