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by rasz
1252 days ago
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>The Lisa was an incredible, groundbreaking achievement despite not being financially successful. 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 |
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Fair criticism. I was fuzzy on the timeline for that. So remove MacBook from the list.
What I'd say about Lisa is that Jobs saw the GUI as the future of consumer computing — in a way that Xerox never did — and spent years doing everything he could to make it happen. And it did take years to make it happen, because revolutionary change is never easy.
Ask yourself why Xerox never became Apple. Xerox executives didn't even know what they had.