Smart phones and MP3 players existed before Apple got into the game, they would have improved without Apple.
Apple isn't tech, Apple is fashion. ----- Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions Midwest Internet Exchange The Brothers WISP ----- Original Message ----- From: "Josh Luthman" <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Monday, February 1, 2016 11:28:16 PM Subject: Re: [AFMUG] SAD day 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: <blockquote> 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] > wrote: <blockquote> 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 </blockquote> </blockquote>
