Someone during the decline of Commodore Inc. and Amiga. "Amiga is a great computer, but Commodore is not innovating anymore. Everyone knows that IBM and it clownes can never catch up (with their sloppy graphics and sound) and Apple is not really an innovator (still playing with cassette tapes.) These are pretty much the only players I know in the game, so I'm convinced that the technology is doomed. We'll all use Amiga 1200s forever."
(Sorry, couldn't resist) On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 3:18 PM, John Pratt <[email protected]> wrote: > > In the first place, Steve was very conservative when it came > to hardware and advances; relatively few things pushed the edge > technologically, in terms of achieving some kind of science future. > Three-dimensional displays exist, but no one ever explored that option. > > From 1999 onwards, the focus of Apple was to produce commerce, > not advance the state of products overall. Most everything > he did from 1997 to 2011 simply leveraged the work that had been > done previously and repackaged it. Bitter failures at NeXT and > massive success at Pixar led to the candy coating of Apple products, > in which all progress underneath the covers ceased abruptly. > > But now Apple is unaware of this and they are still riding forward into > a wall. They don't know that they are riding into a wall because they > are just rehashing and rehashing things written in the 1980's and 1990's, > which weren't, in the first place, as advanced as people envisioned them > to be able to be in the 1950's even. > > Since Microsoft follows Apple in large part and SGI is basically > gone, no one leads the world except Apple. So if Apple does not > incorporate > a technology, it will never become mainstream. No major competing > operating > systems exist anymore and no one is even thinking like that. And since > Google is > only splitting itself when it gets into hardware and not staying on track > with web, > it cannot really overcome this, either. > > This is really the end game, for all of technology. > If Apple never improves itself in this regard, never thinks at a > fundamental > level, if it never examines the faults that Steve borrowed from PARC > without > examining the conceptual underpinnings, Apple will just decline, as is > the case right now. > > Everything that was aspired in the 1990's is now a narrowly-defined > reality: > video exists in all formats and is available in any way possible. Audio > and > music are consumable in all ways. All information is basically > transmittable > as quickly as one really wants it given technology. Speed the computers > up by > 10x and it won't make much difference anymore. > > Stock analysts and news journalists can't see that the underpinnings of > technology have now hit a wall. Go ahead and make a watch or whatever. > Real observers know that technology is over; it is just in its last throes. > > Once you define a tablet in the form of an iPad, no one can do anything > else. > Now that a mobile phone is synonymous with a touch pad, no one can think > of anything else. Mankind has boxed itself in and it is all over. > > > > > _______________________________________________ > fonc mailing list > [email protected] > http://vpri.org/mailman/listinfo/fonc >
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