... in the consumer market. Consider these 'innovations' that were first successfully marketed by apple that are now widely adopted. Consider also that with each introduction these were considered 'wrong' according to then current dogma.
- A windows based OS (how could it compete against DOS or CPM?)
- A mouse based OS (who needs a mouse?)
- 3.5 " floppy disks (they're not even floppy!)
- built in networking (networking?)
- MS word, excel, powerpoint (they'll never dethrone Lotus 1-2-3 and Wordperfect)
- laserprinters (they'll never do the work that dot-matrix printers can do)
- Pagemaker (it doesn't even smell like printer's ink!)
Most others have been mentioned elsewhere in Katz-reply posts.
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... in the consumer market. Consider these 'innovations' that were first successfully marketed by apple that are now widely adopted. Consider also that with each introduction these were considered 'wrong' according to then current dogma.
- A windows based OS (how could it compete against DOS or CPM?)
- A mouse based OS (who needs a mouse?)
- 3.5 " floppy disks (they're not even floppy!)
- built in networking (networking?)
- MS word, excel, powerpoint (they'll never dethrone Lotus 1-2-3 and Wordperfect)
- laserprinters (they'll never do the work that dot-matrix printers can do)
- Pagemaker (it doesn't even smell like printer's ink!)
Most others have been mentioned elsewhere in Katz-reply posts.