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05 October 2012, 05:35 PM
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05 October 2012, 06:03 PM
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No, no he didn't. Trust me on this, he really didn't.
You might have bought into the various gadgetry for which he helped develop and promote, but don't assume everybody has. Big mistake. That's one massive reason why i find your infatuation with the man, the brand and the products so bewildering. He created nothing special in my eyes.
05 October 2012, 06:04 PM
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No, no he didn't. Trust me on this, he really didn't.
You might have bought into the various gadgetry for which he helped develop and promote, but don't assume everybody has. Big mistake. That's one massive reason why i find your infatuation with the man, the brand and the products so bewildering. He created nothing special in my eyes.
You might have bought into the various gadgetry for which he helped develop and promote, but don't assume everybody has. Big mistake. That's one massive reason why i find your infatuation with the man, the brand and the products so bewildering. He created nothing special in my eyes.
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05 October 2012, 06:16 PM
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Is this a lateral thinking riddle? Or do you think you've created an "Apple" section within Scoobynet? No clue where your logic took you with those last few posts. Not that it matters.
05 October 2012, 06:21 PM
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05 October 2012, 07:11 PM
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No, no he didn't. Trust me on this, he really didn't.
You might have bought into the various gadgetry for which he helped develop and promote, but don't assume everybody has. Big mistake. That's one massive reason why i find your infatuation with the man, the brand and the products so bewildering. He created nothing special in my eyes.
You might have bought into the various gadgetry for which he helped develop and promote, but don't assume everybody has. Big mistake. That's one massive reason why i find your infatuation with the man, the brand and the products so bewildering. He created nothing special in my eyes.
05 October 2012, 07:26 PM
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Just for clarification, Apple did not invent the USB port, in fact were dead against it as they push Firewire instead...
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05 October 2012, 07:40 PM
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Tony, how do you know what Apple maps are like? Use them much? Have you noticed how the amount of data used for maps has 'improved'?
Anyhow shouldn't you be scanning the internet trying to prove me wrong about the iPhone's processor? Or maybe looking up the meaning of years.
Anyhow shouldn't you be scanning the internet trying to prove me wrong about the iPhone's processor? Or maybe looking up the meaning of years.
and the processor does suck, its actually not that quick, you know those benchmarks you keep harping on about? Learn to read them, it shows you where the iphone gains but they bunch the lot up together, so processing power is mediocre but memory access is very good (looks to be ddr3), which is where it scores very highly.
05 October 2012, 07:54 PM
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Actually Tel, I think you will find that the very fact Gates had Jobs on the other side, so to speak, has had an impact, if not an influence on your life.
05 October 2012, 07:58 PM
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Indeed, Apple has been very successful at making technology accessible which consequently drives improvement in competing products (and visa versa of course).
05 October 2012, 08:00 PM
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05 October 2012, 08:35 PM
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If you are trying to make an assertion that Apple in some way made USB more accessible, well you are greatly mistaken. Apple had to adopt PC technology because their competing firewire technology failed gain any momentum. They introduced it on their iMacs several years after it was first introduced on PCs and it continues to be developed by several well known PC companies.
05 October 2012, 09:00 PM
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If you are trying to make an assertion that Apple in some way made USB more accessible, well you are greatly mistaken. Apple had to adopt PC technology because their competing firewire technology failed gain any momentum. They introduced it on their iMacs several years after it was first introduced on PCs and it continues to be developed by several well known PC companies.
(even if PCs still outsold Macs many times over)
05 October 2012, 09:17 PM
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05 October 2012, 09:38 PM
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No, he popularised some gadgetry. The Wright brothers, or Fleming, or Curie, or Pascal, those are the type of people who changed the world (hell, even Hitler!).
Long after Jobs is forgotten, those names will live on.
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05 October 2012, 10:26 PM
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Yes, seriously. Being USB only, the iMac rather twisted the arm of peripheral manufactures and made life easier for the users as all connections were the same.
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05 October 2012, 10:39 PM
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05 October 2012, 10:50 PM
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Some interesting points...
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-19834594
...not least:
"His ability to say no and keep things from shipping. Andy Grignon, who worked on the first iPhone, tells me all the time about how Jobs would kill a project or send it back for more work. He tells about how the original iPhone looked nothing like the shipping product. Jobs kept saying "no" until it was perfect."
Although, having played around with Apple maps, I quite like it (even if the actual data part of it has one or two "imperfections"
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-19834594
...not least:
"His ability to say no and keep things from shipping. Andy Grignon, who worked on the first iPhone, tells me all the time about how Jobs would kill a project or send it back for more work. He tells about how the original iPhone looked nothing like the shipping product. Jobs kept saying "no" until it was perfect."
Although, having played around with Apple maps, I quite like it (even if the actual data part of it has one or two "imperfections"
)
