| > Lisa was a HUGE flop. Some people are trying to make this all about money, but that's missing the point. I already acknowledged that Cook is great at making money. But he's not a "product person". The Lisa was an incredible, groundbreaking achievement despite not being financially successful. It was innovative, and laid the groundwork for Macintosh. > Jobs stole Mac project, but not the way you think :) he stole it from Jef Raskin For the better. "Jef Raskin, who had fought against the application of a mouse and instead preferred a pen or a joystick." "Raskin did not particularly support the innovations the Lisa team had picked up in the Xerox PARC" > Macbook? its just a laptop., continuation of PowerBook line under new name Yes, my use of "MacBook" was intended to be just a generic reference to Apple laptops. MacBook is the most recognizable name. > iPhone/iPad was resurrecting hundreds of millions spend on R&D building Newton by Larry Tesler team I was up there with you until... |
Have you ever used one? I dont think incredible and groundbreaking is how I would describe copying Xerox $16K Star into $10K Apple that takes _30 seconds_ to open empty text document and 10 seconds to save same empty text document. Opening diskette takes 15 seconds, copying _empty_ text document from one drive to the other takes 15-25 seconds, deleting a file takes 5 seconds, ejecting floppy another 15 seconds etc etc.
>Yes, my use of "MacBook" was intended to be just a generic reference to Apple laptops
again all started under Sculley