Steve Jobs - hipster IP thief whole stole every last idea from Xerox PARC shamelessly. Real talent was Woz. Jobs was an aggressive, rude, lucky marketing machine whose success could not be recreated even if he was reincarnated. Apple has huge amounts of money and employees, but a year of work from IP4S to IP5 produced an extra row of Icons and a $650 dollar IP5 that still caters to carrier lockins. Little brat Apple trying to sue Samsung while Android has captured over 50% market share.
Without Steve Jobs we would have: No overpriced poorly supported iProducts, No hyper expensive laptops, anti-standard non-USB connectors, ruthlessly jailed operating systems.
Without Andy Grove : No x86 - the ultimate revolution in tech the world has ever seen, inexpensive, effective and universal.
When Jobs died it was like a third world funeral for a Dictator. Andy dies, nothing from the media. ..
Apple shipped the first mainstream products with USB.
" Apple Inc.'s iMac was the first mainstream product with USB and the iMac's success popularized USB itself.[15]" - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USB
I built my own PCs at the time. it took about 5 years before USB gained wide adoption. Today the smaller, reversible, faster, USB C standard is on the verge of becoming a standard. I feel like it's the late 90s all over again. Apple first and the PC industry taking its good old time. Why is it so difficult to ship a couple new ports, along with that legacy USB?
Without Steve Jobs we would have: No overpriced poorly supported iProducts, No hyper expensive laptops, anti-standard non-USB connectors, ruthlessly jailed operating systems.
Without Andy Grove : No x86 - the ultimate revolution in tech the world has ever seen, inexpensive, effective and universal.
When Jobs died it was like a third world funeral for a Dictator. Andy dies, nothing from the media. ..