Has anybody read this (Digital Wars)? http://www.amazon.com/Digital-Wars-Google-Microsoft-Internet/dp/0749464135 <http://www.amazon.com/Digital-Wars-Google-Microsoft-Internet/dp/0749464135>
It talks all about the revolutionary ideas that each (Apple, Google and Microsoft) has put into their products over the years. If I remember right, from the book (I read it last summer): iPod had the click wheel user interface, not just a button to go back and forward like pre-iPod MP3 players. It had a higher count of songs you could play as well since it was the first to introduce the 1.8in drive from Toshiba. iPhone had touch screen interface, not needing a stylus, pinch-zoom, and other UI enhancements. No keyboard taking up screen real estate that others prior to its time had. Is suggest a read (or a listen, in my case). The groundbreaking thing at Apple is the marketing team. They make people WANT to spend their hard earned month on their products. Whether it’s better/worse than others on the market we can debate all day. All that matters is the users experience, which for me is better than an Android :). -c > On Feb 2, 2016, at 10:34 AM, Sam Kirsch <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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. > > > -- Samuel Kirsch, Network Support > Plexicomm - Internet Solutions | www.plexicomm.net <http://www.plexicomm.net/> > Office: 1.866.759.4678 x109 | Fax: 1.866.852.4688 > Emergency Support: 1.866.759.9713 | [email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]> > > > > ------ Original Message ------ > From: "Josh Luthman" <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>> > To: [email protected] <mailto:[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 >> 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] >> <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>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
