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Watch Steve Jobs Demo the Mac, In 1984
VentureBeat is one of the many outlets featuring recently surfaced video of Steve Jobs doing an early demo of the Macintosh, 30 years ago. I remember first seeing one of these Macs in 1984 at a tiny computer store in bustling downtown Westminster, Maryland, and mostly hogging it while other customers (or, I should say, actual customers) tapped their feet impatiently.
Scumbag or not he's done far more than any of us could ever dream of and his name will be remembered a hell of a lot longer than mine or yours.
Yeah, Hitler too.
Damn it this is really annoying. The Mac was good for a few tasks and crapped itself if you looked at it wrong. The Mac is now reliable thanks to BSD, but it is still only good for a few tasks. The only reason it survived was publishers love it.
OK we get it. We understand your beloved Linux/Windows/Android sucks compared to Mac OS X & iOS. You are angry at the world because of that, and at how terrible the Linux/Windows/Android designers are compared to the more talented Apple designers. That is fine, you can remedy your fail by switching to Apple's systems. Also, you don't have to cry EVERY time someone mentions Steve Jobs.
My recommendation to you is to drop your silly Linux/Windows/Android system, and get a real Unix system like Mac OS X. It won't be cheap, but in the real world, no one wants to work with cheap people anyways, so you're gonna have to spend money regardless.
Also, get a Mac because it's a closed source system, which is much higher-quality than an open-source system.That is because design-by-committee is always worse than design-by-responsible-individual.
In general, if a person recommends Linux/Android/Windows in a professional environment, they should immediately be fired.
Interesting, usually people are too busy fellating him to remember that his sole contribution to the actual original apple was "Hey, the PSU should be beige." The rest of the work was Woz and the others.
Fact for you: I am writing this comment on a mac, running OSX. What pisses me off is that people are crazy Steve Jobs fanboys without realizing that he had little to no technical ability. He was a sales guy, and had an idea about how things should work and how they should look. That's it. He didn't build anything. The original apple was built by Woz, and Jobs helped to sell it. Don't believe me? You can download the schematics for it; they're entirely the work of Woz. The same with the Apple II. Jobs' sole contribution to the projects was color suggestions on the boxes. His career would have not started except for the work of other people, whom he later screwed over at any chance he could take. He was like Edison, find engineers, find ways to suck work out of them or get them to put patents under your umbrella, and then take all of the credit. They won't sell? Blackmail, cheat, harass until you can get the patents under your control. He was a disgusting human being. The fact that he admitted other people were involved in this video is surprising. For those of us who met him, he was a royal douche who is incredibly overrated. The world is in a far worse place for losing Dennis Ritchie than it is Steve Jobs.