Total touche'...Originally Posted by WØTKX
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Total touche'...edlin autoexec.bat
Woz is on Pierce Morgan's show tonight. What a friggin' waste of space.
Speaking of Woz, what's the skinny? I had been under the impression that Jobs screwed him over, then I read a bio and it sounded more like Woz did it to himself.
If it's a war on drugs, then free the POW's.
Who cares? Steve Jobs will not be remembered for his Apple work in the early 1980's, but rather what he did around the turn of the century and for a decade after..
I have serious issues with Apple's corporate policies, but for better or worse, Steve Jobs was a pioneer in the smart phone/gadget world.
Not really:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LG_Prada_(KE850)
The Cult of Steve just bought it because Steve said to, not because it revolutionized anything.
Love your words about the "Cult of Steve."
Now then...
Anybody who had an Amiga back in the day knows that there was a truly innovative home computer that was the FIRST to have a true multi-tasked system that was wide open to developers -- you could buy source code listings.
But....they couldn't market their way out of a wet paper sack. But imagine....they coulda had a lot of the market sewn up if the realized what they had. Meawhile, the Mac, that was way, way behind Amiga, proved that marketing beats technical innovation any day.
Sigh....
If it's a war on drugs, then free the POW's.
It's true, marketing is key to any new innovation. Steve knows how to build a cult, and make them buy whatever he says they need.
Take the iPhone. It was preceded by the LG Prada. The Prada sold pretty good. Nothing too exciting (1 million units sold in a month). Now, Steve comes along, copies the specs, the form factor, the GUI, and calls it an iPhone. Tells his cult they need it, and then they go and buy it.
Genius. L. Ron Hubbard said it, and it works,"Wanna make real money? Start a religion." Steve did that, and made it a marketing tool.
Corey, if you don't like Apple or Steve Jobs that's certainly your right but you should at least get your facts straight. The LG Prada was announced in December 2006, the first iPhone in January 2007. Do you really think Apple managed to produce a copy that quickly?
All the world’s a stage, but obviously the play is unrehearsed and everybody is ad-libbing his lines. Maybe that’s why it’s hard to tell if we’re living in a tragedy or a farce.
Apple Lisa w/System 7 anyone?
The GEM Desktop?
device=qemm.sys
"Where would we be without the agitators of the world to attach the electrodes
of knowledge to the nipples of ignorance?" ~ Professor "Dick" Soloman
I give Jobs a lot of credit, and I wish him well with his health trials. No matter how controversial the Apple story, the company deserves the success it has wrung from a hard and fleeting market. Their ego-driven insistence on remaining a "system apart" has resulted in a market share populated by some of the most loyal consumers outside of the world of Porsche.
Their industrial design standards are second to none. So is the iPhone. It is simply the best cell phone I have ever used, bar none.
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