RIP Steve Jobs

[soda72]

That said, I think apple has let the opposition in smart phones gain far too much market share by being way too tight on connectivity to thier products in that apple usually asks for huge licensing sums for a third party hardware supplier's product to work with iphone/ipad/ipod touch.

Not surprising, basically same thing happened when they were in the personal PC market.

[skorpion]

makes me sick seeing how some PC fanboys are hating on him.....

with out him we would have no aces or some BBS, gosh some people have no lifes, hating on dead people. thats all i have to say.

you do know that an apple computer (MAC) cant play AH right? AH is only good on windows computers, and those are PC's. the "PC Fanboys" dont exist. a fanboy is either,
And
or
nor
for
yet
but
they.

those are fanboys as far as im concerned. they are used in sentences to link pronouns/nouns or any other word you need linked.

learn your english little one.

[Tigger29]

you do know that an apple computer (MAC) cant play AH right? AH is only good on windows computers, and those are PC's.

Next time do your research.  It can in fact run on a Mac if you run windows on it.  And yes modern macs can dual boot to windows.

[Jayhawk]

Next time do your research.  It can in fact run on a Mac if you run windows on it.  And yes modern macs can dual boot to windows.

You forgot to call him "little one," I think that it suppose to make you feel better about yourself.

[skorpion]

Next time do your research.  It can in fact run on a Mac if you run windows on it.  And yes modern macs can dual boot to windows.

a mac can only run AH if it has windows installed on it, and when you but it directly from the store, it doesnt usually have windows installed on it already. wouldnt most people buy a PC instead of a mac due to the fact that mac's are typically made to be buisiness suited?

[Jayhawk]

a mac can only run AH if it has windows installed on it, and when you but it directly from the store, it doesnt usually have windows installed on it already. wouldnt most people buy a PC instead of a mac due to the fact that mac's are typically made to be buisiness suited?

That's never been my impression of macs at all.  In fact, I would argue that PCs dominate the business world while macs have been targeting the individual consumer much more.

[olds442]

you do know that an apple computer (MAC) cant play AH right? AH is only good on windows computers, and those are PC's. the "PC Fanboys" dont exist. a fanboy is either,
And
or
nor
for
yet
but
they.

those are fanboys as far as im concerned. they are used in sentences to link pronouns/nouns or any other word you need linked.

learn your english little one.

makes me scared seeing how stupid some people are

YES i do  no that apples cant play aces high 2 thats not my point, if you know STEAVE was a god, with out him  a PC would be a work computer and no gaming possable because no one thought about making them so a normal person could buy one for there home, again no steave jobs= we would have nothing no aces high no any other stupid game no any BBS NOTHING why because he was the one who thought "i wounder if these computers could be used by a average joe' BTW i have not one apple product and think they are horb compared to a PC but STEAVE really did make it so a average joe could buy a computer.

you guys amaze me how mean you can be by hating on one of the people that MADE THE PC revolution as i call it. you are people who what things handed to them and dont think about how it happened. think about it skorp, if not for him i dont think we would be doing this BBS or gaming anytime soon.... same for bill gates and Wozniak.

[skorpion]

YES i do  no that apples cant play aces high 2 thats not my point, if you know STEAVE was a god, with out him  a PC would be a work computer and no gaming possable because no one thought about making them so a normal person could buy one for there home, again no steave jobs= we would have nothing no aces high no any other stupid game no any BBS NOTHING why because he was the one who thought "i wounder if these computers could be used by a average joe' BTW i have not one apple product and think they are horb compared to a PC but STEAVE really did make it so a average joe could buy a computer.

you guys amaze me how mean you can be by hating on one of the people that MADE THE PC revolution as i call it. you are people who what things handed to them and dont think about how it happened. think about it skorp, if not for him i dont think we would be doing this BBS or gaming anytime soon.... same for bill gates and Wozniak.

uhh...how did you manage to spell steve's name wrong when its right in your face? also, PC was the compitition, if apple didnt happen, well PC still would have and we would still have our aces high today because someone wanted to play a game on the computer, and thus, the gaming PC was born. BTW and moron with half a brain cell could work a computer, because the directions for a computer are written for someone with half a brain cell.

and nobody here is "hating" on the apple corp. 

[Shuffler]

YES i do  no that apples cant play aces high 2 thats not my point, if you know STEAVE was a god, with out him  a PC would be a work computer and no gaming possable because no one thought about making them so a normal person could buy one for there home, again no steave jobs= we would have nothing no aces high no any other stupid game no any BBS NOTHING why because he was the one who thought "i wounder if these computers could be used by a average joe' BTW i have not one apple product and think they are horb compared to a PC but STEAVE really did make it so a average joe could buy a computer.

you guys amaze me how mean you can be by hating on one of the people that MADE THE PC revolution as i call it. you are people who what things handed to them and dont think about how it happened. think about it skorp, if not for him i dont think we would be doing this BBS or gaming anytime soon.... same for bill gates and Wozniak.

Computers were coming along fine.

Do you think there would be no laptops if Compaq had not started?  It was all a matter of time.

[RTHolmes]

you do know that an apple computer (MAC) cant play AH right?

wrong. my MacBook Pro runs AH at 60fps in HD.

AH is only good on windows computers, and those are PC's.

wrong. there is no such thing as a "windows computer." windows is an OS.

the "PC Fanboys" dont exist.

wrong. just sniff around the net, you'll find plenty of em.

a fanboy is either,
And
or
nor
for
yet
but
they.

those are fanboys as far as im concerned. they are used in sentences to link pronouns/nouns or any other word you need linked.

learn your english little one.

err ... wtf?


thats pretty impressive - every single proposition in this post is wrong. you get 10 points for being consistent though.

[Tyrannis]

 

[Skuzzy]

olds442, your mistake is thinking Apple started the whole consumer computer market.  They did not.  There were several successful computer companies around before Apple started shipping their first computer.

As a matter of fact, Radio Shack beat Apple to the market.  I know as I was there when it happened.

Apple really is more of a marketing company than anything else.  They have wonderful technology, but most of the technology is a contemporary spin on older technology.  I am not saying they have not created any technology, they have.

What Apple does better than anyone is marketing.  The company's marketing is simply brilliant.  They can take older technology, wrap it in a new wrapper, and everyone will believe Apple created it all.  That says a lot about how good their marketing is.  That is also a credit to Steve Jobs.

Steve Jobs was one of the early players in the personal computer era and the industry lost a valuable friend, partner, and supporter.  It is sad.

[skorpion]

<snip>As a matter of fact, Radio Shack beat Apple to the market.

i thought radio shack was just a store that sold the stuff? or did they actually make some of their own stuff as well?

[RTHolmes]

their marketing is fantastic, but their real strength is their core culture. in common with what I consider the best companies out there, their focus is on making great products, which tend to sell themselves anyway. they make stuff which makes their lives easier or more fun. which generally means that it will make some consumers' lives easier or more fun.

xerox had some doodles of interesting ideas which I really dont think they would have ever developed on their own. apple ran with them and obsessed over the details to produce something useable. considering what a bodge MS have made of even copying apples interface stuff over the years, I very much doubt they would have ended up with anything as usable as Win7 had it not been for apple.

even if you hate everything about apple and love using your MS OS, you have to concede that what you are using now would not have been anywhere as good without the lead from and (vague threat of) competition from apple.

Jobs, Wozniak, Markula (breadhead with vision) and a bunch of other talent like Raskin did something special which has made everybodys' lives just a little richer, whether you've ever used an apple product or not.

[Shuffler]

Their only real failure I can remember is donating apples to the schools. The actual donation was great for the name and advertising. The failure was in the premise that those students would buy allples when they moved on.

Jobs was definitely a mover and shaker.