Tablets would most certainly be around, companies started to try and
make them in the 1980s. MP3 players too. All these things existed well
before the iPod and the iPhone, and multiple companies had been working
on them already for decades. These things are all just glorified PDA's,
the Palm Pilot I had in 1998 pretty must disproves any "X wouldn't be
around without Y company" Technology is technology and progress is
progress... there's nothing groundbreaking here about Apple AT ALL. My
first couple PDA's had WiFi and GPS and there was definitely a Palm
Pilot PDA/Phone combo out around the time Blackberry's started to appear
a lot more, this is all before the iPhone.... it may be just before or
around when the iPod first came out though. To think that technology
wouldn't have made that leap to full modern smartphones and tablets on
its own without the likes of Steve Jobs is just laughable.
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------ Original Message ------
From: "Josh Luthman" <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Sent: 2/2/2016 12:28:15 AM
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
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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]> 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
