The basics were indeed done at Xerox PARC. It had to be considerably refined to fit on a 128k Mac, and evolved from there. Current OS is a healthy mix of NeXT + Mac Classic GUI.
dave
Steve Jobs was a man with a vision. Like all obsessives, he lost out with friends and relationships. He had some successes, some failures. He had good luck and bad. He created the best and easiest computer platform to work with. He also created one of the worst abuses of the "walled garden" that exists to this day. Would technology be where it is today without him? I doubt it. Might it be better? Possibly, but unlikely.
one warning was already issued. I've deleted a number of posts as they were disrepectful, especially in the context of an RIP thread. Any further posts ignoring moderator directives will result in bin time. 
I've never purchased nor owned anything with the Apple logo. It's pretty easy, though, for me to recognize Apple with Jobs = Mac, without Jobs = Newton, with Jobs again = Ipod. Whether or not he's the Edison of his era I'll leave to history. There's no doubt that he was instrumental in creating a brand/product with fierce loyalty, as demonstrated in this thread. His premature passing is tragic no matter how you look at it.
Steve's Speakers
Was looking at the Time magazine issue about Steve Jobs. Two photos caught my eye. One was circa 2004 in his home office. I can see a Genelec monitor on his desk, along with the giant Mac video monitor and lots of other clutter.
Then there was a photo of him in his very bare apartment in 1982. Not much there other than Jobs and at the back wall a turntable, some disks, a receiver and a pair of very large flat panel speakers. I don't think they are Magnapan, but maybe. Cloth covering, wood base. Wonder what they were?
Was looking at the Time magazine issue about Steve Jobs. Two photos caught my eye. One was circa 2004 in his home office. I can see a Genelec monitor on his desk, along with the giant Mac video monitor and lots of other clutter.
Then there was a photo of him in his very bare apartment in 1982. Not much there other than Jobs and at the back wall a turntable, some disks, a receiver and a pair of very large flat panel speakers. I don't think they are Magnapan, but maybe. Cloth covering, wood base. Wonder what they were?
One recent issue of Businessweek has a lot of articles about Steve Jobs.
Steve Jobs: The Beginning, 1955-1985 - Businessweek
http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/11_42.html
Steve Jobs: The Beginning, 1955-1985 - Businessweek
http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/11_42.html
It's amusing that iDeath was used in the 60's by Richard Brautigan in one of his surreal novels.
thanks for the link.
the comments section reveals the author,
Michael I. Niman, is actually politicking.
he is one of the people that media types
go to to get the approved spin.
jobs real appeal most likely is the perception that
of david-underdog-apple v. goliath-big brother-microsoft/intel.
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and that he saved us from that big kid turned billionaire.
those of us that like music are truly fortunate that bose
and the 'perfect sound forever' types haven't reached that level.
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ie, Steve had to follow, like almost every other commodity manufacturer, the Walmart model. Don't blame Steve, blame those who shopped at Wallmart (and almost every other chain nowdays).
dave
Also don't forget that the hundreds of thousands assembling iWhatevers in China were formerly likely unemployed and/or rural peasants. Your concept of the boundaries of fair wages and acceptable working conditions works fine in the 1st world, but don't use it to condemn those in the 2nd & 3rd world to unemployed poverty because the jobs don't meet your standards. These are little different than the conditions our grandfathers (or greats if you are younger) endured in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. No economy makes a direct transition from rural subsistance to top of the heap post-industrialism.
the factory workers actually have improved life when the factory start to setting up in their area, or nearby area where they stayed.
everyone have freedom to choose whether they should work in a factory or not.
the author on that particular article definitely have no idea what kind of condition and situations for a manufacturing facilities, in china or anywhere else.
like some speaker maker claims that no made in china on their product, its the same unsubstantiate his article is.
cheers
henry
everyone have freedom to choose whether they should work in a factory or not.
the author on that particular article definitely have no idea what kind of condition and situations for a manufacturing facilities, in china or anywhere else.
like some speaker maker claims that no made in china on their product, its the same unsubstantiate his article is.
cheers
henry
quite true.
from the latimes -
one man says -
" I discovered that I could import completed
and boxed product for less than our material cost.
I knew we were in trouble,"
Furniture industry, Sandberg: Sandberg furniture factory in Vernon keeps its edge through efficiency - Los Angeles Times
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