theocacao.com — If you look at what Apple's done over the last few years, there's an almost absurd amount of fresh thinking and major leaps forward. At some points along the timeline, things just seem to magically click together at the right places.
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Closed AccountSep 4, 2006
""It's really hard to design products by focus groups. A lot of times, people don't know what they want until you show it to them." "That really hit it on the head
kolop1Sep 4, 2006
"My Graphite iMac that is over 7 years old runs the latest version of OS X with no problem." If you say so. With no memory up grade, and the 7 year old processor. I love Mac fan boys. They lie to make a point. I have seen the new Mac os on an old Imac. It runs like crap.
bluekangarooSep 4, 2006
Interesting, although he seems to think that all innovation flows from the mac: His statement about USB and no floppy in the iMac and that we might all still use them if not for apple.... BSThe other one is that iLife saved the desktop from going away to be replaced by descrete devices designed for specific tasks... BS again. Apple may have had great influence in the development of operating systems, but they arent the only holders of innovationI forget the exact quote but it goes something like this "the art of creativity is hiding your sources".... seems apt when it comes to Steve Jobs and his visit to Xerox's PARC
Closed AccountSep 4, 2006
True. Apple is fearless, it have tons of money!
nofxjunkeeSep 4, 2006
d2nd: Yeah, the mini sucks for development. That's exactly my point. It's slow and only does single-head, yet I still prefer that limited environment to my dual-head dual-processor Opteron running Linux, which I also like a lot.That's why I'm going to buy a new Intel-based Apple notebook that does dual-head with the money I earned using my Mac mini this summer.
docnoSep 5, 2006
>Interesting, although he seems to think that all innovation flows from the mac: I never him state all - just that there was quite a bit. And I would have to agree.>His statement about USB and no floppy in the iMac and that we might all still >use them if not for apple.... BSWell, Apple dropped the floppy over 5 years ago. It's still hard to get a PC without one even tho there are hardly any files that will fit on one and you can readily boot from either a CD, DVD or USB drive.That's the kind of fearless drive to innovate the original author was talking about. PC vendors are still hanging on to the floppy, even though they are hardly ever used.Talk about being stuck in a rut.>Apple may have had great influence in the development of operating systems, >but they arent the only holders of innovationThey may not be the only, but they are the boldest - which I think was his main point.Take USB for example. Intel had the spec out there for at least a couple of years. No one paid attention to it at all - crappy devices hacked through parallel ports or even worse floppy drive interfaces (anyone remember the colorado Jumbo tape drives?)Apple comes along and embraces USB with the launch of the original iMac. Dumps ADB (Apple Desktop Bus - that was a standard at the time, Sun used it for their keyboards and mice too). Within months, there is plethora of USB peripherals and a whole new market was born.USB as a standard existed for years before Apple picked it up. I just sat there as the PC world treaded water maintaining the status quo.That's bold innovation. Apple didn't invent USB - they didn't have to. But they sure as hell made it popular and successful - single-handedly! >I forget the exact quote but it goes something like this >"the art of creativity is hiding your sources".... seems apt when>it comes to Steve Jobs and his visit to Xerox's PARCYet another BS uniformed digg troller - for the last time, Apple *PAID* for their visit to Xerox, in order to use any ideas they saw - hence the paid part. The truly ironic thing is, the Mac team already had the concepts of windows and mice - it was more a trip to clue the boss (i.e. Steve Jobs) in as to how cool the GUI could be. Do a little research and get informed before you comment
bluekangarooSep 6, 2006
Steve Jobs bought stock in Xerox, and they granted him a tour of PARC. That's NOT the same as paying for a visit to purchase technology. He got the GUI idea from the Alto computer he saw there. I did my research and here's a link:<a class="user" href="http://inventors.about.com/od/cstartinventions/a/Apple_Computers.htm">http://inventors.about.com/od/cstartinventions/a/Apple_Computers.htm</a>You don't provide any links for your "research," just a lot of talk
mathcreativeApr 21, 2009
facts or it didn't happen!
mathcreativeApr 21, 2009
true but OSX is more stable than windows, and if your a heavy pc user windows unstableness can cost you time. I know linux could take up that category too. But their are probably a lot of people like me that don't like most of the linux user interfaces that come with every distro.