Linked by Thomas Hormby on Mon 2nd Oct 2006 19:11 UTC
Over its thirty year history, Apple has survived and even thrived despite boneheaded business decisions. From pricing the Macintosh out of most consumers' reach to creating some really ugly computers, Apple has made a lot of bad decisions.
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RE[3]: Hate'em or love'em...
by someone on Wed 4th Oct 2006 00:10
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X11 (a better imitation)
X11 is NOT an imitation of QuickDraw, CoreGraphics or any Apple technology. In fact, it could be said that the server/client separation and remote desktop feature, pioneered by X11 (in 1987!) influenced both Apple and MS in the design of the graphics layer of OS X and Vista respectively.
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2006-10-03
Apple has driven the market since it's inception with the brief period from 1995 till 2000. Windows arguably caught a then stagnating Apple in 1995 with Windows 95. But even during this time the "innovations" were often simply improvements on earlier ideas. ie. MS copies "Publish and Subscribe" on the Mac as OLE and then extends it to become Active-X. NeXT was innovating but not many people noticed.
The return of Jobs to Apple marked a return to Apple's position as the primary innovator as it assimilated NeXT and Introduced the world to OpenStep with a Mac UI wrapper - OS X. Now once again the new ideas are coming out of Cupertino!
Apple's influence? We all use Macs - either the cheap imitation that is windows, X11 (a better imitation) or the real thing - OS X (technically it is an imitator but because it has the Apple name you can't call it that).
The roots go back to Palo Alto and AT&T, but the modern computer all follow the look and feel of the first computer to put them together - the Mac.