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Amelio, Raskin, Gassée On What Apple Means

Posted by timothy on from the great-fruit-really-tart dept.

John Paczkowski writes: "SiliconValley.com is currently hosting the third in its series of online Roundtable discussions. Our topic is 'Does Apple Matter?' and as you might imagine conversation has been quite spirited. Among our guests: Jean-Louis Gassée -- chairman and CEO of Be and former head of head of product development at Apple, former Apple chairman and CEO Gil Amelio, former Macintosh project manager Jef Raskin, and Mark Gonzales, a former senior Apple product manager who worked on the company's 'Star Trek' project. You'll find the introduction to the event here and the discussion itself here."

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  1. Re:Jef Raskin by greggman · · Score: 0, Troll

    USB doesn't count because it would have died if it had not been used on Windows. That Apple was the first to use it ignores that it was planned for PCs. Apple was just smart to recognize that it was "the future" and that since it was going to used by most PC gadgets it was in their best interest to support it so those same gadgets could be used on the mac with by supplying mac drivers.

    This is almost the same reason they switched from NewBUS to PCI and the same reason they switched from SCSI to IDE except in those cases it was hindsight not foward thinking.

    Same with FireWire, while Apple should be credited for putting it in Mac first, it was not their *innovation*. It is a standard developed by the camcorder companies.

  2. of course! by i244 · · Score: 0, Troll

    if it wasnt for an apple then newton would have never written the laws of gravity. =)

    no wait that's not....... oops.

    computers? uhh apple?

    sure they were the first with a nice graphics. without pretty graphics there wouldnt be PORN. THANK YOU APPLE!

    ....i244

    Grenade throwing 0.1
    1) hold pin, pull grenade
    2) throw pin.... no waitamin*BOOM*