>Google actually had developed the pre-android android before apple introduced
>the iphone. It's likely that Apple saw the skunk-works project as inspiration
>for the iphone.
>
>Likewise the apple GUI and mouse was developed at Xerox-PARC before Apple
>developed the Mac.
Together with Smalltalk 80 which was groundbreaking but not spread very wide.
Concepts are marginaly copied into C++ and partially copied into java.
Yes. And there was GEM which was then ported to the Atari ST.
>The core of Mac-OSX is the Mach core that Next evolved from BSD Unix.
>Apple's key to success is indeed the fashion and mystique that they have
>created.
And to bring stuff to market at the right time. There were tablets before the
iPad but failed due to hardware limitations.
>Saddly, they haven't really come up with anything new since Steve jobs
>departed. I don't see them really doing anything new yet.
They tried with Apple Watch but failed. There is something missing which
overcomes the small screen/battery problem. Steve Jobs might have
gotten the point in time when a wearable screen is available which makes it
something new.
>Google is still running a lot of skunk-works type projects, and are really
>striving to break new ground.
Google is complete different in inventing service and profit where no one tried
before. They try and fail with a lot of stuff but the
cash-cow adwords allows them to do this.
bp
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On 2/2/2016 5:56 AM, Josh Luthman wrote:
You don't remember BlackBerry was out before iPhone?
I used my IBM laptop from college for a few years. Same story plus I could
play Halo CE :)
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On Feb 2, 2016 12:36 AM, "Travis Johnson" <[email protected] <mailto:[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?
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On Feb 2, 2016 12:22 AM, "Travis Johnson" <[email protected] <mailto:[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]
<mailto:[email protected]> > wrote:
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
