Okay, guys, I understand your positions and I have no love for Jobs
either...admiration maybe. But think about this.
The inventors of the whole concept of a GUI was invented at the Xerox Palo
Alto Research Center (PARC), and Xerox actually made a machine based on
these concepts, a large mini/small mainframe known as the Xerox Star. Xerox
being the marketing collossus it is (it has been said that if Xerox bought
Kentucky Fried Chicken that they would market it as hot, dead chicken! :)
), the Star barely sold at all; it was a curiosity.
Jobs saw a demonstration of the Star and was convinced that this was the
wave of the future and set out to create it for the "everyman" on small
boxes.
After the fiasco of the Lisa and falling out of favor with the Apple board,
he ensconced himself and the Mac team in a metal building to complete the
Mac development. They would fly the Jolly Roger over the building during
the day (sound familiar?) and illegally raid the Lisa files at night. The
result was the Macintosh. Gates saw a major competitive edge with the GUI,
and started development of his own in reaction. The OS wars were born.
But the point of it is, if not for a chance demo combined with Jobs vision,
we'd probably still be using some form of command-line architecture on small
boxes, and the Newton with it's cool OS probably would never have existed at
all.
Just food for thought.
Regards,
Gary
----Original Message Follows----
From: RobertRuff@aol.com
To: tech_ed@yahoo.com, newtontalk@planetnewton.com
Subject: Re: Re: NTLK New Apple PDA?
Date: Sun, 26 Mar 2000 08:37:34 EST
In a message dated 3/26/00 3:39:45 AM, you wrote:
<<Well, what can I say, fool me once, shame on
you...fool me twice, shame on me! Well, now I work for
a B-I-G internet company, and the closest thing to a
Mac product anywhere in the company is spelled MAC
(notice the capitalization...hint, it has nothing to
do with Apple)
And yes, I agree. Jobs increased the stock price...and
I made a killing (purchased at $50, sold at
$130...paid for my wife's and my vacation this year
with a some left over)
I just don't believe any of the purposeful
mis-information that comes from Apple...and honestly?
I don't believe that Jobs has any tricks up his sleeve
left to wow me with...but, I'm an open minded
man...and I sit here with a devout agnostic
stance...so I say to Jobs and Apple, "show me, wow me,
let's see if you still 'got-it'"
ed
web/gadget guru
>>
Well I'm sorry to say that I'm a Mac-Aholic and that has been holding
me
back, I can't seem to adopt Ed's attitude though I'd like to. I'm
currently
lusting after a G4 and all the while I so BENT (pissed off, furious, angry)
that the G3 I recommended to my cousin has been giving her so much trouble
specificly with crashing using AOL 4.0 though I believe 3.0 is stable for
her.
Yea Yea they killed the Newt oh well, and I agree that killing the
clones was stipidly shortsighted. This all seems like an ego maniac
refusing
to share the hardware market to increase it's O/S market. The FOOL should
have been the creator of Windows or rather Mac OS for the PC rather than
letting Apple be a the mercy of it. My best guess at his attitude is that
this would cut into Apple Hardware sales. What a fool, it could have been a
stepping stone to conversion to Apple hardware for people who want and can
afford the best.
Oops, Did I get carried away here
sorry
RobertRuff
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