Even if you don\'t use any Apple products, just think how much Steve Jobs pushed Apple and how much Apple pushed other companies.
Without the many innovative Apple operating systems over the years, where would Windows be (maybe still DOS)?
Not really, there were actually home computing OS that had windows, two button mice, scalable fonts, windows, screens, and pre-emptive multi-tasking already in 1985 (this is what I meant by it\'s sad how few know about all the other innovators who got lost since history is written by the victors and gullible or poorly informed press). There was stuff out there infinitely better than MS-DOS/Windows IBM PC clones. But Gates knew how to market and how to control media so who knows that? Not many.
So, no, not at all.
Apple started the desktop Laser printer as we know it.
I have no idea for sure, but you may well be correct.
Without the iPhone, would there be an Android?
maybe not for a lot longer
Without the iPad, would there be an Galaxy Tab?
probably not, certainly not yet and certainly nothing as usable, he certainly did get the portable music, phone, tablet world going and in great form and style, that is true, quite a legacy
How long would we have been using 5 1/4 floppies; and then how long 3 1/2 floppies; or parallel printer ports; or serial ports? Often, Apple seemed to move before consumers where ready to give-up on old hardware and outmoded software; but looking back it was the right thing to do.
Sorry but you are wrong here. You think the only other option was the IBM PC clone. There was hardware far more innovative and better than that stuff (or the Apple stuff) for much of that sort of thing.
The true OS and hardware innovations really had nothing to do with the big two, for the most part. Sometimes Apple got the very basics first as in any sort of home computer at all and he did sneak the 3.5\" drives and mouse/windows for the home out there shortly before others (and that does get some credit) but the brilliant engineering in that day and age leads more to names like Jay Miner and friends, however ignored by many.
but anyway this sort of talk really isn\'t for this thread, so I don\'t want to get into it too much here
Another thing Apple has always been a leader in accessibility for those with disabilities.
certainly possible, I don\'t know
Steve Jobs pushed Apple to brilliance.
he certainly brought them back from the brink and revolutionized the music distribution industry and hand-held computing
Steve Jobs\' legacy will live on, but I\'m truly sad at his passing.
agreed
R.I.P. Steve
Oct 06, 2011 at 12:53 AM
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