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Schiller Says Apple Is the Last PC Maker From the Mac Era, Forgets About HP

Posted by timothy on from the I-feel-happy-I-feel-happy dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Philip Schiller, Apple's senior vice president of worldwide marketing, recently claimed that Apple is the only computer company left from the early days of the Mac. Unfortunately for him, HP still exists. "Every company that made computers when we started the Mac, they're all gone," Schiller told Macworld in an interview on Apple's Cupertino campus. 'We're the only one left.' I'm sorry Apple, but when exactly did HP declare bankruptcy? We contacted an HP spokesperson for a statement on Apple's ridiculous claim and were pointed to its timeline history page."

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  1. !HP by iroll · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Comparing today's HP to the HP of the 80s, I'm inclined to side with Schiller.

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    1. Re:!HP by pushing-robot · · Score: 5, Insightful

      Are you thinking of Apple of the 70s? Woz was basically out by 1981.

      Apple today is very much like Apple of the early Mac years: building computers that are small, easy, and appliance-like.

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  2. He is probably correct by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Interesting

    The company that started in the garage in the picture is now called Aligent. HP that is in business now was a spin off that has little to do with the company started by the founders of HP

  3. Marketing guy says something untrue? by MachineShedFred · · Score: 5, Insightful

    A marketing guy said something untrue? SAY IT ISN'T SO!

    I'm guessing the only reason this story is here is so they can rack a couple OMG APPLE IS SO ARROGANT FUCK THEM posts from 7-digit newcomers around here.

    God I miss the pre-Dice Slashdot.

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  4. It USED to be Agilent... by Ellis+D.+Tripp · · Score: 5, Informative

    They just split the company yet again, and the electronics test/measurement operations (the descendant of the original HP business) got rebranded as "Keysight Technologies":

    http://www.nasdaq.com/article/...

    A company called "Hewlett-Packard" still exists, but they sell printers and PCs. Nothing to do with the company that Bill and Dave started in the Palo Alto garage....

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  5. A couple of others, one well known, one not so. by shippo · · Score: 5, Informative

    I can think of a couple of other manufacturers who are still going, and were producing machines at the the time of original Mac. One of these is a major name, another is obscure, even in it's own country. The first is of course Toshiba, who were producing CP/M systems in 1980, if not earlier. The other is the British manufacturer Research Machines, who produce exclusively for the UK educational sector. Their RM 380Z, another CP/M box, appeared in 1977. RM are still producing PCs for education today, but I believe that they will soon be moving out of hardware whilst continuing with their software and support services.

  6. Hey, Johnny-come-lately... by Slartibartfast · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I thought the story was a reasonable one. While I do miss the pre-Dice days, the days I really miss are the pre-Y2K days. Taco commentary, movie reviews, "quickies," Hemos, Cowboy Neal poll options... I just enjoyed the by-the-seat-of-their-pants feel. And that has been gone for quite some time. Certainly before you registered. ;-)

  7. Re:Oh by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    He didn't make a mistake, he knowingly made a false statement in order to posture Apple above other computer makers. It is not possible for anyone that has anything to do with the computer industry in a professional capacity to "forget" about IBM, HP, Dell, Acer, NEC, Sony, Cray, Fujitsu, etc. who all made computers from before or since the Mac to current day.

  8. Re:Only Toshiba by nojayuk · · Score: 5, Informative

    Sony Viao L-series all-in-one desktops PCs.

    http://www.sony.co.uk/product/...

    Fujitsu (no longer Fujitsu-Siemens) Esprimo desktop PCs.

    http://www.fujitsu.com/uk/prod...

    Panasonic tablet-based PCs running Windows 8.1

    http://www.panasonic.com/busin...

  9. Re:Oh by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    IBM don't make PCs any more

    That's funny, because I see them selling workstations and tower servers. Those are PCs.

    Dell started 8 years after Apple (and after the Mac)

    Dell traces its origins to 1984, when Michael Dell created PC's Limited while a student of the University of Texas at Austin. The dorm-room headquartered company sold IBM PC-compatible computers built from stock components.

    Acer started 13 years after Apple (and after the Mac)

    The Micro-Professor MPF-I, introduced in 1981 by Multitech (which, in 1987, changed its name to Acer)

    NEC don't make PCs any more

    Really?

    Sony made their first PC 7 years after Apple (and after the Mac)

    Really?

    Cray never made PCs

    "Every company that made computers when we started the Mac, they're all gone"

    Fujitsu only started making PCs 14 years after Apple (and after the Mac)

    In 1954, Fujitsu manufactured Japan's first computer, the FACOM 100, and in 1961 launched the transistorized FACOM 222.

    FM-7