Apple was so far ahead on the GUI in the late 80s that if they had just produced "Macintosh" as an operating environment for all the x86 hardware and UNIX workstations on the market, they would be running the Windows operation now and would have owned that for decades. Instead they wanted to sell their proprietary hardware with their GUI bundled on top. And as said above, they sued all of Microsoft's competitors on the 'x86 platform out of the way for them. While at the same time, Microsoft was making a mint selling Word and Excel for the Mac.
Apple has a long tradition of 'thinking small.' Though they changed that in their new gadget era. Jobs chided Skully about spending his life 'selling sugar water to kids' and ended up selling shiney gadgets himself.
Has Gingery's book been released on PDF? I wasn't aware of that. Gingery is a small-press business and probably are hurt tremendously by pirates distributing PDF versions of their books.
How will we bootstrap our early 20th century machine shops from scrap material and a charcoal forge after the apocalypse if Gingery's books aren't widely distributed, particularly in post-apoc. readable paper form?
The important question is wether the Geek Squad company wants some punk employees to sully their reputation in the marketplace to obtain a private reward of $500 for activity completed on company time.
I would think that the bosses at Geek Squad would take control of the situation and fire some troublemaker employees.
I am trying to figure out where they will put the large Apple logo on the spectacles, though. Maybe it will project an Apple logo hologram into the air above and in front of the wearer.
Apple has sharp teams of lawyers, which has always been one of their strongest points. They've sued their way to success going back to the days when they ran Apple II cloners out of business and sued anybody who came out with a GUI environment. They continued to run GUI vendors out of business, until they ran up against Windows, and thus effectively gave the GUI dominance to Microsoft.
FaceTime doesn't come on my phone. Not at all. It's an Android phone.
FaceTime is nice if you only want to talk to other people with Apple Phones. Which, I am sure, is the case for a lot of people with Apple Phones. Why would they want to talk to the unwashed masses?
You can disagree by touting specific numbers, but almost no one outside Slashdot and similar forums cares about specs. Everyone else just wants to use the stuff they bought.
I don't need to make a free account of any sort on Android.
You can even take the thing out of the box new, and set it up, without connecting to Google in any fashion. Set the options correctly and install apps and/or any alternative appstore that you want.
By the time Apple is ready to license their Mac OS, it will have withered away.
It just isn't a viable option. Apple has no chance of supporting the huge market of 3rd party hardware they would need to on a third-party licensed Mac OS. They aren't good enough at that sort of thing.
I'm not sure why we even support lower case on this site. The printhead on my Teletype ASR-33 doesn't have lower case and it works well for communication.
People like you keep using the word 'hipster' to describe others. I think in the final historical analysis, the people who we will look back at and despise will be those who spent their lives sneering at others.
The 'sneering' subculture is largely made up out of the people who in any sane era would be known as 'the hipsters.' A small portion of those presently known as 'the hipsters' are to a degree being shitheads. However, the meta-shitheads are those poking fun at them.
Temperature control was far more difficult in 1986 than it is today. Just like with many other processes, the degree of precision available today is at least a magnitude better than in the recent past.
I anticipate there will soon be moderately priced digitally controlled temperature baths for the amateur market cropping up as a side result of Kodak reintroducing Ektachrome.
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Apple was so far ahead on the GUI in the late 80s that if they had just produced "Macintosh" as an operating environment for all the x86 hardware and UNIX workstations on the market, they would be running the Windows operation now and would have owned that for decades. Instead they wanted to sell their proprietary hardware with their GUI bundled on top. And as said above, they sued all of Microsoft's competitors on the 'x86 platform out of the way for them. While at the same time, Microsoft was making a mint selling Word and Excel for the Mac.
Apple has a long tradition of 'thinking small.' Though they changed that in their new gadget era. Jobs chided Skully about spending his life 'selling sugar water to kids' and ended up selling shiney gadgets himself.
Pease drove a '67 bug and it ultimately killed him. Be careful.
Has Gingery's book been released on PDF? I wasn't aware of that. Gingery is a small-press business and probably are hurt tremendously by pirates distributing PDF versions of their books.
How will we bootstrap our early 20th century machine shops from scrap material and a charcoal forge after the apocalypse if Gingery's books aren't widely distributed, particularly in post-apoc. readable paper form?
I don't have Chrome installed. Just SeaMonkey.
No need to buy anything.
Better yet, no need to charge anything, except for the phone itself.
Legacy means dead and gone, or heading that way. It will take more than a bit of courage from Apple to kill the 3.5mm headphone jack.
"In Soviet Russia 3.5mm headphone jack kills Apple."
We can hope, anyway, though it will probably just be a contributing factor.
As long as you're willing to settle for half the performance and also being perceived as really cheap.
The important question is wether the Geek Squad company wants some punk employees to sully their reputation in the marketplace to obtain a private reward of $500 for activity completed on company time.
I would think that the bosses at Geek Squad would take control of the situation and fire some troublemaker employees.
They will be courageous glassholes.
I am trying to figure out where they will put the large Apple logo on the spectacles, though. Maybe it will project an Apple logo hologram into the air above and in front of the wearer.
Apple has sharp teams of lawyers, which has always been one of their strongest points. They've sued their way to success going back to the days when they ran Apple II cloners out of business and sued anybody who came out with a GUI environment. They continued to run GUI vendors out of business, until they ran up against Windows, and thus effectively gave the GUI dominance to Microsoft.
Thanks, Apple.
Yikes.
FaceTime doesn't come on my phone. Not at all. It's an Android phone.
FaceTime is nice if you only want to talk to other people with Apple Phones. Which, I am sure, is the case for a lot of people with Apple Phones. Why would they want to talk to the unwashed masses?
La la la la la la!!
La la la!
Look, a pony!
La la la la.
Also, an untrue post.
Apple made the LaserWriter after the Apple IIe, and it was a quality product.
Or did they just slap a label on something with a Canon engine in it? I'm not certain.
Nonetheless, the LaserWriter was a quality product.
using it didn't feel like torture.
Such precise language. You wouldn't be a member of a cult of some sort, would you?
I don't need to make a free account of any sort on Android.
You can even take the thing out of the box new, and set it up, without connecting to Google in any fashion. Set the options correctly and install apps and/or any alternative appstore that you want.
All without ever logging into a Google account.
Hey now, the SE/30 was a great little server.
Just cabinets for server hardware.
By the time Apple is ready to license their Mac OS, it will have withered away.
It just isn't a viable option. Apple has no chance of supporting the huge market of 3rd party hardware they would need to on a third-party licensed Mac OS. They aren't good enough at that sort of thing.
Real music, instead of just listening to recordings of other people playing & singing.
I'm not sure why we even support lower case on this site. The printhead on my Teletype ASR-33 doesn't have lower case and it works well for communication.
Seven bits should be enough for anybody.
People like you keep using the word 'hipster' to describe others. I think in the final historical analysis, the people who we will look back at and despise will be those who spent their lives sneering at others.
The 'sneering' subculture is largely made up out of the people who in any sane era would be known as 'the hipsters.' A small portion of those presently known as 'the hipsters' are to a degree being shitheads. However, the meta-shitheads are those poking fun at them.
They owned major components that made up the boat. By definition they sailed with the boat.
But we were talking about comprehension.... umm...
Temperature control was far more difficult in 1986 than it is today. Just like with many other processes, the degree of precision available today is at least a magnitude better than in the recent past.
I anticipate there will soon be moderately priced digitally controlled temperature baths for the amateur market cropping up as a side result of Kodak reintroducing Ektachrome.
Nobody cares. I remember as a kid that the cool kids had an STP sticker on their bike. Which definitely didn't use any additives like STP.
It's cool to champion something. Even cooler to champion 'the underdog' that has several minor aspects where it is superior.
Grow up. You're being dumb, picking corporations to be your racehorse.
So you're saying that the AMD chip is being stomped by slow as hell M chips with iProcessor branding?