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what if apple had actually went bankruptcy in 1997,what would be different today
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peter-h:
Of course we cannot prove this one way or another but Steve Jobs was not the only visionary around.

He had the idea of putting a phone in the Ipod (the then music player). That was a fairly obvious step, made possibly only around that time by technology. I am sure it would have happened.

Generally stuff that is (a) obvious and (b) possible gets done pretty quickly.
Benta:

--- Quote from: EEVblog on August 18, 2020, 05:36:12 am ---
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.

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You missed the initiator: Reply#2.

Thanks for banging on the table.
leham:
no pixar maybe
westfw:

--- Quote ---If Apple did not exist, or disappeared at some point, nothing much would actually change.
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I don't know.  The Apple/Microsoft Rivalry was probably one of the best things to ever happen to computer users.  It probably didn't hurt anyone that they both wrote such showy, hurried and inefficient software that it pushed chip manufacturers as well.
Perhaps, without Apple, it would have been Xerox, Next, or even Sun, that filled in the gap and pushed GUIs along.  Trickling down from commercial workstations to home users.  Eventually.

tooki:

--- Quote from: EEVblog on August 18, 2020, 05:36:12 am ---
--- 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.

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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.

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What are you talking about? I didn’t deliberately start anything. (If I ever do start something, it’s NOT deliberate.) I’m not the one who brought up vaccination. Please point your vitriol at the person who actually injected the off topic BS.
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