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To: oxcart
The story of Apple is a fascinated one. Two young men basically invented an industry out of a garage in a sun-splashed California suburb. Only in America do things like this happen.

I wonder how often it will happen again going forward now that we are in the age of "helicopter parenting" where parents over-supervise every activity their children are engaged in. Kids today can't even go to Little League practice without their hovering parents sitting out there in lawn chairs cheering every time they properly field a ground ball. Then after practice, it's right into a mini-van for the obligatory trip to a ice cream stand where the parent carefully selects a treat that conforms to some specific caloric value that the parent deems appropriate.

Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs were basically left to their own devices and did not get a lot of parental interference as they tinkered away and began to build their business.

8 posted on 05/25/2013 10:47:10 AM PDT by SamAdams76
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If they tried they’d be crushed by patent threats from the established companies.


43 posted on 05/30/2013 12:01:43 AM PDT by antiRepublicrat
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