gizmodo.com — Back in 1997, Larry Ellison was on a beach in Hawaii. After sipping his second Margarita that evening, he turned to his pal Steve Jobs, who was listening to Bob Dylan on his Sony Walkman. "Steve...Steve...STEVE! Hey, let's buy Apple."
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cthellisNov 6, 2009
Yes, by all means. Products are never, ever updated and enhanced and improved and streamlined by others in significant ways that make it more useful and popular among the public, thus vastly increasing sales and application for the device. It is only, EVER the first person to come up with an idea that counts! Long live the Edison Phonograph Cylinder! f**k the heathen "record" and its pussy creators!
datdamonfooNov 6, 2009
He needed a few more years to come up with plans to completely, but subtly, f**k over consumers and introduce overly expensive products with limited functionality and market it as "high-end". Steve Jobs is a douche.
philomaticNov 6, 2009
Err yes please give credit where credit is due:Apple swapping to Intel based machines was huge. Not many companies have the guts and foresight to make those kinds of changes... Apple even maintained a secret Intel build of OSX years before swappingOSX is more than just NeXT and FreeBSD. Even then, NeXT was Jobs's company and is now part of Apple... Webkit is Apple's fork of KHTML. If KHTML is so great w/o Apple's work, why don't people use it instead of Webkit?
cthellisNov 12, 2009
@ohreillyWish I'd wandered back here earlier. Your numbers, they are in need of some updating:<a class="user" href="http://www.gartner.com/it/page.jsp?id=1224645" rel="nofollow">http://www.gartner.com/it/page.jsp?id=1224645</a>Where were they the year before? 48.7%Where were they in Q3 2006? 75%Yes, their lunch. It is being eaten. Not to mention WAYYY outprofited:<a class="user" href="http://www.reuters.com/article/COMSRV/idUSN1051937420091110" rel="nofollow">http://www.reuters.com/article/COMSRV/idUSN1051937 ...</a>