RIP Steve Jobs - Page 5

Ungriim · #41 10-06-2011, 03:41 AM

Can one of you artsy people make this into a shirt: Bill Gates silhouette with a raised sword and "There can only be one" written under it?

Alkorin · #42 10-06-2011, 08:02 AM

He was as much an innovator as anyone else in technology. There are only so many ways you can skin a cat. He skinned many of them before anyone else did -- whether they were stolen cats, as it were, or not.

Shannacore · #43 10-06-2011, 11:26 AM

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Ektar · #44 10-06-2011, 11:28 AM

who was he again?

Aadill · #45 10-06-2011, 11:29 AM

Confirmed: Westboro Batshit Church = insane.

also mad, fat, a dude, etc

pickled_heretic · #46 10-06-2011, 12:11 PM

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He was as much an innovator as anyone else in technology. There are only so many ways you can skin a cat. He skinned many of them before anyone else did -- whether they were stolen cats, as it were, or not.

i'm sorry, what did he innovate? was there any product apple released that wasn't already essentially in existence before apple released it?

you can use apple as an example of effective marketing and monetization... not effective innovation.

p.s. sucks that he died from cancer

Alkorin · #47 10-06-2011, 12:39 PM

As I said, as much an innovator as anyone else. He just happened to skin the cat(s) first. They were already cats before he got to them.

For those who don't do metaphors: He marketed everyone else's ideas better than they did, even if Apple wasn't necessarily the first one to invent the product.

pickled_heretic · #48 10-06-2011, 12:47 PM

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As I said, as much an innovator as anyone else. He just happened to skin the cat(s) first. They were already cats before he got to them.

For those who don't do metaphors: He marketed everyone else's ideas better than they did, even if Apple wasn't necessarily the first one to invent the product.

they did pioneer the practice of putting intrusive spyware in their shitty software.

Shiftin · #49 10-06-2011, 12:57 PM

There's no way you're serious...

The first versions of things like excel, word and even windows were actually apple programs and concepts that bill gates ran with more successfully on a larger platform due to microsoft's alliance with IBM. To say that apple didn't innovate is to ignore the entire history of the tech sector for the last 30 years.

Orruar · #50 10-06-2011, 01:09 PM

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There's no way you're serious...

The first versions of things like excel, word and even windows were actually apple programs and concepts that bill gates ran with more successfully on a larger platform due to microsoft's alliance with IBM. To say that apple didn't innovate is to ignore the entire history of the tech sector for the last 30 years.

Actually, the concepts of word processing and spreadsheets on a computer were out long before Apple came along. Everyone here seems to have this notion that invention is coming up with some brand new thing has never been thought of before. In fact, invention and innovation are really just small incremental changes to existing ideas. I can't think of any invention that was truly a brand new concept with no predecessor.