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Today Marks the 45th Anniversary of Apple's Founding
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If you read all the different books a clearer more accurate picture of what it was really like forms. The personal accounts are all so different and often contradict but there are some constants in the stories. I suppose I can't blame anyone for trying to shape their legacy...
I don't know about you but I see some dude and Ashton Kutcher in this photo.
Please don't remind me. I was given 50 Apple stock back in 1997 as a bonus from the company. Well, I sold those stocks off immediately while they were still worth $20 and was smuggly satisfied when it promptly dropped to $13. To my never ending shame, Apple stock began to steadily rise from then on. Considering the stock split (112x50=5600
shares) and value, I'd be sitting on $680,000 right now. Sure it ain't Ronald Wayne getting an 8-track level but it's pretty significant.
I'd like to know more on this. Can you or someone else elaborate a bit more on that or point me to a good tube or site with more info?
As a side note, so they sold the first Apple I in "Byte Shop" in July of 1976 for $666.66. For those complaining about the prices of Apples products...in todays' dollars that is $3125.69!
Woz was the engineering genius, Jobs was the business and marketing genius, the perfect symbiotic relationship that resulted in the first personal computer that could be operated by common people. Forget about all the ‘yeah, well, the Altair was the first personal computer' or some other hobbyist concoction. The Apple II was first, period.
Interesting article in that 90% of MacRumors forum members are active Apple haters these days.
As much as I agree with you, I think they are just playing the game that they didn't create. They are just holding the best hand at the table now.
Woz still gets a paycheck from Apple by the way. Woz can be a loose cannon when it comes to PR and that’s why he’s been kinda shoved aside. it’s interesting that after his heyday at Apple Steve Wozniak started numerous business ventures and developed products that never succeeded in the marketplace. Go figure.
As for more information about Wozniak read Walter Isaacson’s biography of Steve Jobs. Wozniak had almost nothing to do with development of the Macintosh and wanted to continue production of the Apple II. Wozniak was an open architecture kind of engineer and wanted peripheral slots, CPU swaps, i.e. what the PC clones were. That’s where the estrangement started.
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A great day with a significant impact in my life, given I've dedicated a lot of time to using, fixing, upgrading, reading about, and flat-out enjoying Apple products.
Cheers to Apple and us fans!
Cheers to Apple and us fans!
You're just describing the basic path of all complex systems (take a look at modern medicine, for instance). It has nothing do do with Apple, per se. By comparison, I think they've done hugely better than Microsoft or HP or IBM. You are not going to build the ecosystem that Apple has and have all the pieces working perfectly all the time. At least, not if it's built and managed by human beings. But hey, perhaps you're perfect.
I use to love Apple. Now they slowly morphed into one of my least favorite companies.
Lol, I love how in literally every interview he’s asked about it & has to bold faced lie about having no regrets! 🤣
It’s mostly the front page. Very helpful community in the forums.
Hazzle?
Lol, is that the politically correct way to remove the “ass” from hassle? 😂
True, but anybody involved back then, if the were in their 30's would currently be in their late 70' or 80's. Woz is 70
Jobs was worthless without Woz. No way he could have accomplished what he did without him. And woz won in the end
It's sad that some people are upset with "political correctness" in my mind, it really just means being respectful to everybody.
No. To me it seems like a statement from Tim that is more personal in relation to Steve and Apple. Tim didn't have any experience with Woz to my knowledge.