Star WWDC08: What's Steve Jobs Going to Unveil?
Linked by Adam S on Mon 9th Jun 2008 15:41 UTC
Apple The 2008 Apple Worldwide Developer's Conference keynote is just over an hour away. The Apple Store is down. What do you think Steve Jobs is going to unveil? Will it be the much rumored 3G iPhone? Or the newest rumor, the Mac Fusion? Perhaps Jobs will unveil the codename of OS X 10.6? Feel free to discuss in the comments or chat about the it live at OSNews Talk.
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tupp
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2006-11-12

Apparently, blind eyes also because you didn't read (or possibly comprehend) what I wrote.

Let's avoid personal attacks, shall we. The post was read, the point was considered, and a response followed. I never specifically mentioned any individual.

My first statement directly addressed the significance of the claim that Apple "popularized" USB. I simply pointed out "so what?" The Apple USB claim (true or not) is just a single instance -- so it does not disprove the assertion that Apple sucks just as much as everyone else.


I didn't claim that Apple invented USB or that they were the first to incorporate it into a machine. Several companies used Intel's reference motherboard designs as a start to include USB.

I never said that anyone claimed that Apple invented USB (although many have) nor that anyone claimed Apple was first to use USB.

The purpose of proving that Apple didn't invent USB was to quell any notions to the contrary. The term "popularized" often gets blurred with "innovated" in the minds of fanboys, and both concepts seem to hold the same weight in the fanboy mentality.


USB was basically dormant technology until Apple did something to put it into action.

This assertion is an opinion, not fact. However, the implication that USB would not have become popular without Apple is certainly false.

As mentioned in my previous post, the popular use of USB was inevitable. From both references that I linked, it is obvious that there was rapid development of the USB standard by many major manufacturers -- before, during and after it was used on the first Imac. Even with the early USB adoption problem (which was solved by USB 1.1) it is doubtful that these manufacturers would let all the USB resources got to waste. They needed USB to solve serious interconnection problems.


Your anathema against Apple doesn't change reality.

Again, let us try to avoid personal attacks. One's motives for posting have nothing to do with the validity of one's points.

However, I would like to state that I have no anathema against Apple -- I merely value the truth.

The truth and reality is that Apple sucks just as much as everyone else.

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