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| what if apple had actually went bankruptcy in 1997,what would be different today |
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| GeorgeOfTheJungle:
--- Quote --- what if apple had actually went bankruptcy in 1997 --- End quote --- The Teslas would have real gauges and buttons instead of that silly iPad :-) |
| olkipukki:
--- Quote from: aqarwaen on August 16, 2020, 07:00:19 pm ---,if Microsoft had decided do not help and instead enjoy watching apple going bankruptcy. --- End quote --- By end of 1998, Microsoft splitted (aka antitrust case) into 2 companies Micro- and Soft-. Micro- went to buy Texas Instruments and Soft- has implemented hard-time DOS for MSP430. After Micro- acquired ARM for a peanuts, the company renamed into Microarm. In 2000, new hard-time BASIC born to run on 64kB MSP430+ MCU. Twenty years later (2020) everybody forgot what C is all about. BASIC became a ruler of the embedded world. Soft- eventuality bought by IBM, and WINDOWS been disassembled into FRAMES, GLASS and SCREWS. <EOF> :horse: |
| EEVblog:
--- Quote from: james_s on August 17, 2020, 12:25:17 am ---Apologies for derailing this thread though, it's a bad habit of mine. --- End quote --- WTF people, just stop it. How hard is it to stay on topic for HALF A PAGE before turning a thread about Apple into a vaccination debate. Seriously, just stop it. I have deleted all the off-topic posts. Just ignore people like Tooki who deliberately start this sort of thing. It could have died right there if no one took the bait and replied. There is too much of this crap on the forum as of late, and I don't want to have to start locking threads, warning or banning people, or deleting posts. |
| peter-h:
Computers are just tools for doing work. If Apple did not exist, or disappeared at some point, nothing much would actually change. Windows works fine but it is just an OS. What matters is the application software. Going back say 15-20 years it was true that most graphics design software was available for Apple only, and this produced a "graphic designer = always Apple" fashion culture, but that changed a long time ago. The world would carry on just fine without Apple. The whole Iphone fashion is just a fashion. It doesn't do more than an Android phone. And in the end a smartphone is just a thing for making calls, messaging, and running applications. Re off topic stuff, I run a forum also in my spare time (not in electronics) and we have had the same there. There are lots of people who are basically frustrated with life and are looking for outlets for mischief. It makes a mod's job harder. |
| Cerebus:
--- Quote from: peter-h on August 18, 2020, 09:01:14 am ---Computers are just tools for doing work. If Apple did not exist, or disappeared at some point, nothing much would actually change. Windows works fine but it is just an OS. What matters is the application software. Going back say 15-20 years it was true that most graphics design software was available for Apple only, and this produced a "graphic designer = always Apple" fashion culture, but that changed a long time ago. The world would carry on just fine without Apple. The whole Iphone fashion is just a fashion. It doesn't do more than an Android phone. And in the end a smartphone is just a thing for making calls, messaging, and running applications. --- End quote --- Apple were first, by over a year, Android was a "me too" product. It took Apple to get the Smartphone into existence. There had been PDAs before, there had been cellular connected PDAs (including Psion, Palm and Newton), there had even been mobile phones built around the whole idea of digital connectivity (Nokia 9000) but none of them got the formula quite right until the iPhone. Every smartphone since has essentially copied it. It may seem obvious now, but many innovative products seem obvious once someone has made the first one. There is no guarantee that someone else would have come up with a design that hit that sweet spot had Apple not have been there to do it. |
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