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Has Apple Really Ever Invented Anything?
Dear All
Today during surfing computer websites I have found a video created by two American geeks which put a very interesting question to the public - Has Apple Really Ever Invented Anything?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wFeC25BM9E0&feature=relmfu
I was trying on my own to find even one Apple creation and I need to admit the failure. I think they are right - Apple did not invented anything particular but it does not make them very wrong. Apple as a brand is a very good and genius with creating recipes and stating after their rights to them.
Please watch this video and put your comments.
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Permalink Reply by John McMullan on
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Rumour has it that Steve Jobs paid a million dollars for his tour around Parc. He saw a mouse, compartmentalised windows and object oriented programming, a shame Xerox didn't think they could patent things like that back then...
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Permalink Reply by Marek on
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Personally, I am a happy Mac user and think that Apple make good quality computers for a bit too high price. I am far away from praying to their logo and Saint Steve Jobs every time I switch my MacBook on.
As they said in the video Apple is a good recipe company which knows how to put their ingredients together in a good and tasty cooking book. And Mac users think that all their beloved products were created and invented by Apple. What an irony ...
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Permalink Reply by Clive Carter on
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Marek I feel somewhat abandoned by Apple since they switched from IBM's PowerPC processor, to Intel's chip. It might interest you to know I've recently acquired my latest Mac, a G5 Quad. It is 7 (seven) years old and was the most powerful PowerPC machine ever made by Apple.
The outside was crafted by Sir Jonathan Ive. To look inside is to see superb design and quality manufacture in every nook and cranny.
There is liquid cooling. There are four RISC processors made by IBM; four thermal zones and nine computer-controlled fans.
It runs a genuine, certified UNIX-class operating system, as all Macs do today and have done since 2001. It can hold its own in terms of speed, even by today's standards. It runs Tiger (10.4) or Leopard (10.5). It purrs and it roars and it's the cat's whiskers!
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Hi Clive
I have been waiting for your opinion and would like you to share your point of view if Apple is just a good recipe company which adopts other companies ideas and make them "theirs".
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Just a good recipe company? The origins of Apple go back to 1977 and the Home Brew Computer Club and the two Steves. They were there at the beginning of personal computing. The Apple I was first assembled in the late Steve's parent's garage. In June this year, one of those original Apple 1s was auctioned at Christies for $374,500. This was a crude and simple machine by today's standards, but it was recognized as an important step in the history of computing.
Now Apple is one of the world's most valuable companies. Almost everything that users associate with computing today owes its development to UNIX (for the underpinnings) and Apple (for the user interface) - but this is probably too big a subject for this thread.
Apple's great ability is to develop and perfect things, paying utmost attention to the user experience and then to synthesise them into real, shipping products. When does innovation become invention? What comprises invention? It has to mean more than the slogan of HP, the Microsoft distributor.
Apple did not invent the USB connection - that was Intel. But none of the PC manufacturers would add it to their boxes because all it meant for them was added cost and PCs are compared on two measures: price and processor speed. Apple put USB in to the original G3 iMac and popularised it for the entire industry. PC box-makers then followed suit.
By the same token Apple was the first personal computer manufacturer to drop floppy disc drives from the same model. Hardly invention, but typical of Apple, they showed the way forward. No DOS-box maker had dared to be first to knock out one of the tick boxes in the feature-comparison list.
The company that's probably invented the most basic stuff for computing is IBM and the company that's invented the least is probably Microsoft (I do credit them for the Kinect). Yet even the innovative Apple has borrowed a few interface ideas from the Beast of Redmond (e.g. proportional scroll bars).
The contribution of Apple to computing has been immense and in ways often not noticed or appreciated by PC users. For example, it was Apple who recognised the potential of Advanced RISC Machines a long time ago. They invested the then huge sum of a million pounds into the company for a 50% stake. This is now one of Britain's most valuable companies. Better known as ARM, their designs for microprocessors power almost all the world's mobile phones. And the iPad ...
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