You've clearly never tried to repair a Jobs era iBook or Powerbook. Absolutely miserable experience.
To be fair, he had pancreatic cancer. The symptoms usually only manifest themselves when it is too late to treat and life expectancy after diagnosis can be measured in weeks as happened to two family friends. Jobs hung on for much longer than most manage.
Jobs had a rare form of pancreatic cancer that has extremely high rates of successful treatment. He foolishly tried to treat it with diet instead of real medicine. That’s why he died. This wasn’t a standard case of pancreatic cancer and his outcome didn’t need to happen the way it did
In the fall of 1993, I went to a meeting of the "programmer's SIG" of Washington Apple Pi, the Washington DC area Apple user's group. There were about a dozen people there, and the speaker was an author who had written a few books about Mac programming. This evening, however, he wanted to talk about the Newton, because he had just written a book about it with inside-Apple access.
IIRC, he tried various "new age" treatments and juice cleanses. Toward the end, I think he admitted that he should have taken it more seriously.
A high resolution color CRT was big, heavy and EXPENSIVE. Monochrome CRT's did not have shadow masks, so it was possible to get more dots per inch and easier to make a large screen.
The mouse was invented by Douglas Engelbart in the 1960's, possibly inspired by the light pens invented for SAGE in the late 1950's and early 1960's.
Jobs literally had to be forced out of the company for Apple to produce a Mac with SCSI, expansion slots, upgradeable RAM, internal hard disk, and color graphics.
Amelio was pricing computers really high is why sales where way down and almost killed the company.
I’ve always heard the narrative that Jobs visited PARC in the 1970s and basically “stole” the ideas for the Lisa and Mac GUI from them.
There were a lot of factors that almost killed the company. I used to think of Amelio as the worst Apple CEO, but recently I’ve come to believe that it was the bad decisions of his predecessors that came home to roost on his watch.
arstechnica.com
During the 1970s, Niklaus Wirth, at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zurich, developed a machine called Lilith that also used a mouse and windows.
Everybody is doing that now because commodity parts are so cheap compared with earlier that we have entered the disposable era, sad to say.
Yeah and a lot of the time he was wrong! Good thing he learned his lesson when he came back and didn’t try to remove expandability. Some Macs in his era were among the most upgradable ever, like the great design for replaceable hard drives in the first MacBook
Yeah, they didn’t steal PARC’s ideas, they licensed them and expanded them into much better designs with user testing . Then Microsoft stole them from both
PARC's work on GUI's predates Wirth's Lilith. I think it is likely that there was some cooperation between Wirth and PARC.
If Apple had licensed MacOS for clones early, it probably would’ve been a good idea. MacOS had an incredible lead on Windows and could’ve destroyed them
Tim Cool understands that products are required for profit. Steve Jobs understood that great products are the best way to make products
