I wouldn't touch an apple product even through my first programming class was on an apple 2e in 4th grade. Closed architecture, closed everything. My wife and daughter both have iphones and they have problems all the time. Not enough memory and not expandable, problems with upgrades, slowness, etc. I disagree that smart phones wouldn't exist. I had a windows "smart phone" with a slide out keyboard a year before the first iphone hit the market. I think the app store was a a rip off of an already existing idea (handango), but the smart phone in general was already around. It was a natural evolution joining the "palm" devices with a phone. I agree their products appear to be polished, and they've done a good job of marketing them to the elitist crowd, but functionally they aren't any better than a pc. I got through engineering school on a 286/20 that lasted me through school and beyond.
On Mon, Feb 1, 2016 at 11:36 PM, Travis Johnson <[email protected]> wrote: > I would use Yahoo or Bing or any other search engine. Nothing would change > if Google went away tomorrow. > > Blackberries and Android wouldn't even exist if Apple hadn't created the > first iPhone. Same with tablets... look how many people tried tablets > before Apple, and they all failed. > > I purchased a Macbook for my daughter headed to college 5 years ago. She > used that laptop literally every day, for over 5 years. She graduated with > two Bachelor's degrees... using that same laptop. Every paper, thousands of > emails, etc... and she has never had a single issue... no viruses, no > hardware issues, no software issues. Never a single issue. No OS reload, no > malware scanners, nothing. It just works. Just like all the rest of Apple's > products... they just work. > > Travis > > > On 2/1/2016 10:28 PM, Josh Luthman wrote: > > The world's most popular site and you don't think the world would change? > Really??? > > Apple is gone. People buy Blackberries and Android. Tablets probably > won't exist. Mp3 players would probably have come to fruition without > them. What else do they have? > > Josh Luthman > Office: 937-552-2340 > Direct: 937-552-2343 > 1100 Wayne St > Suite 1337 > Troy, OH 45373 > On Feb 2, 2016 12:22 AM, "Travis Johnson" <[email protected]> wrote: > >> At least Apple makes products... products that literally changed the >> computing world, the phone world, the retail world, created apps, and the >> music world. Google created a search engine (actually copying Yahoo, >> Webcrawler, Altavista and several others at the time). They aren't a >> "product". They don't "sell" anything. They are a webpage, just like >> Facebook. >> >> Imagine your life without Google or Facebook. NOTHING CHANGES. >> >> Yes, they built a better mousetrap using their intelligence and hard >> work... but they aren't "inventors". They didn't create anything new or >> groundbreaking. >> >> Travis >> >> On 2/1/2016 10:09 PM, Colin Stanners wrote: >> >> I'd much rather Google / Alphabet Inc. be in that position than Apple >> with their overpriced yet restricted / non-upgradable / crappy consumer >> electronics. >> >> Google is making themselves the curator of access to the world's >> information and communications. When you consider the value of those, it's >> not just the most valuable company in matters of money. The founders had >> incredible foresight in addition to their intelligence and hard work. >> >> On Mon, Feb 1, 2016 at 10:55 PM, Travis Johnson < <[email protected]> >> [email protected]> wrote: >> >>> >>> <http://www.ibtimes.com/alphabet-inc-goog-surpasses-apple-inc-aapl-become-worlds-most-valuable-public-company-2289113> >>> http://www.ibtimes.com/alphabet-inc-goog-surpasses-apple-inc-aapl-become-worlds-most-valuable-public-company-2289113 >>> >>> "The world isn't run by weapons anymore, or energy, or money. It's run >>> by little ones and zeroes, little bits of data. It's all just electrons." >>> ~ Cosmo (Sneakers 1992) >>> >>> Literally, a one page website for a company that is less than 19 years >>> old is now the most valuable company in the world. :( >>> >>> Travis >>> >>> >> >> >
