What do you think of Apple??

Which Apple product was the showed the most inovation?

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Kiretsu

Metric wizard

The first apple desktop, now that was innovation.

Innovated right out of Xerox labs.

http://www.mackido.com/Interface/ui_history.html
http://archive.salon.com/tech/feature/1999/06/17/valley_myths/

You watched too much Pirates of the Silicon Valley xp

(and I've never watched it!)

[WaruiKoohii]

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Kiretsu

Metric wizard

The first apple desktop, now that was innovation.

Innovated right out of Xerox labs.

http://www.mackido.com/Interface/ui_history.html
http://archive.salon.com/tech/feature/1999/06/17/valley_myths/

You watched too much Pirates of the Silicon Valley xp

(and I've never watched it!)

The first link I wouldn't count as evidence because, although it's a well written article, it is not neutral. It is biased in that they are attempting to convince the reader that Microsoft did in fact, blatently steal from Apple.

This line alone makes the article unreliable: "This became Windows 1.0, and evolved into the Windows we know and hate today."

[WhiteSavage]

Shoroo_Lupin

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Kiretsu

Metric wizard

The first apple desktop, now that was innovation.

Innovated right out of Xerox labs.

http://www.mackido.com/Interface/ui_history.html
http://archive.salon.com/tech/feature/1999/06/17/valley_myths/

You watched too much Pirates of the Silicon Valley xp

(and I've never watched it!)

The first link I wouldn't count as evidence because, although it's a well written article, it is not neutral. It is biased in that they are attempting to convince the reader that Microsoft did in fact, blatently steal from Apple.

This line alone makes the article unreliable: "This became Windows 1.0, and evolved into the Windows we know and hate today."

Baias doesn't make things automatically untrue. People say things about Hitler, if they personally hate him does that mean its not true? Or you shouldn't believe it? C'mon!

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Shoroo_Lupin

The first link I wouldn't count as evidence because, although it's a well written article, it is not neutral. It is biased in that they are attempting to convince the reader that Microsoft did in fact, blatently steal from Apple.

This line alone makes the article unreliable: "This became Windows 1.0, and evolved into the Windows we know and hate today."

No cigar for you! Be careful when reading this man, he notes that Billy G *stole the ideas and design* not the actual code. That'd be futile, at best, since Windows was designed to run on DOS.

Funny though, DOS wasn't a "ripoff", they purchased that from Paul Allen, though QDOS was a quick-n-dirty CP/M based 'operating system'.

If you compare Windows 3-ish to other GUIs at the time though, things really become humorous, by the launch of 3.1 MS was competing with NeXTStep, AmigaOS, and even BeOS -- not to mention almost a dozen other competitiors along with Mac OS. It's quite amazing they actually "won", but much of that they owe to the MS+IBM OS/2 venture.

[WaruiKoohii]

WhiteSavage

Baias doesn't make things automatically untrue. People say things about Hitler, if they personally hate him does that mean its not true? Or you shouldn't believe it? C'mon!

I never said that being Biased makes something untrue.

However! I tend to not count biased things as evidence, since if you're biased towards something, you can twist facts around in such a manner that while still being true, it's the truth as the author sees it. I prefer unbiased articles, as it's easier to get facts out of them.

[WaruiKoohii]

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It's quite amazing they actually "won", but much of that they owe to the MS+IBM OS/2 venture.

Which was the cause of parts of Windows NT 3.1, and gave birth to yet another Windows competitor, IBM OS/2.

[JadedMonkey]

Before the ipod, there was no markey for hard drive based mp3 players. what apple did was create a market. that's realy innovation.

the mac mini furthers their sales with a halo effect.

everything else in the list is irrelevant.