Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sat 20th May 2006 21:36 UTC, submitted by Anonymous submission
CNBC had an interview with Steve Jobs. In the interview, Jobs talks about the new Apple store in New York which will be open 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. The interview is quite lightweight - Jobs doesn't reveal anything we haven't heard before and the questions aren't particularly incisive. One interesting comment is made towards the end of the interview though. When asked about AMD, Jobs says that AMD is strong in the high-end server sphere but that Intel have the best notebook and desktop chips (he mentions Intel's Yonah chip) which is where Apple's primary focus lies.
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2006-02-15
So which is it? If other companies did not copy or emulate Apple then why did they not come up with better GUIs? Furthermore, if GUIs may have been better ealier without Apple's influence, then what was it that Apple did to stifle/suppress the good designs of others?
None of the above. You raise false dichotomies. We were speculating on what might have happened if Apple had not done the Mac. The mistakes they made that were copied might not have been made.
The Mac did influence the choices others made.
All I've argued is that if there had been no Mac, there's still be GUIs, evidenced by the number of companies working on them at that time, and that they'd probably have been different, since Apple pushed the 'desktop metaphor', and someone else may not have.
Sometimes, priority indicates novelty, as with Einstein and general relativity, but more often than not, it merely indicates winning a race between similar but different approaches, as with Newton and the Calculus.