Posted on 03/07/2009 6:44:52 PM PST by Swordmaker
Mebbe true but who do you think Apple ripped off?
Xerox Palo Alto Research Center. AKA Xerox PARC. They had windows and mice first.
too stupid to use Macs.
Microsoft Windows dullard
You were saying?
It was far from a ripoff, Bloody Sam Roberts. Xerox was well compensated and agreed to the exchange before the fact, as has been outlined several times on this thread.
MS, on the other hand, compensated no one, not until the lawsuits were settled at least.
You are correct. Perhaps ‘ripoff’ was a tad strong.
The inspiration that led to the Mac was languishing at Xerox. Apple saw the potential of the desktop metaphor with graphical user interface, the ease of use of point and click via mouse versus memorizing code, and expanded greatly upon it, with the permission of Xerox. Even their first run at it, commercially, was something of a disappointment, the Lisa.
But, then came the Mac, given a level of buzz that is difficult to grasp now via the Superbowl ad in 84, and, most of all, PostScript, which is really underappreciated in hindsight. Desktop publishing as we know it wouldn’t have come into being without it, and DTP is what made the Mac a success.
Apple floundered around for the best part of a decade after their initial wild success, and MS caught up in several respects, by hook or by crook (mostly crook). Corporate IT departments didn’t like the comparative stability of the platform, considered it something of a threat to their goldplated priesthood, and already had considerable investment in DOS, so continued with MS platforms and disparaged Apple at every turn ... FUD, fear, uncertainty and doubt. This allowed Windows PCs to predominate.
Now, the shoe’s on the other foot. MS is floundering. Apple is ascendant. As a longtime Mac user, I can’t say I’m not enjoying it, lol.
Cut-Copy-Paste files would be nice (cut as a metaphor for 'move'). I like an alphabetized list of folders at the top of each folder list, impossible in finder. I like icons to be small but thumbnails to be larger, also impossible in Finder. A tree view of folders would be nice, too. Finder won't remember any folder preferences, you have to set them each time (Tiger OSX 10.4) - this one is the worst.
I haven't used Finder for a while so I can't remember a lot of the shortcomings that drove me to buy Path Finder.
Up until comment 16 (your comment) NO ONE said anything about Windows users. YOU made a snide comment about Mac USERS. As did someone before you. You threw a rock. Don’t tell me you missed that.
You, sir, are a giver/nurturer/world-class wi53a55.
Well then perhaps you’d better write to movie producers ... I still find that Mac is harder to use than any PC ... I simply do not like Mac’s .... IMHO
Nobody? Nobody except the author of the article and those he chose to quote approvingly. Just who are the dullards and stupid people being referred to? Do you see the problem with your reasoning? The thing about how Mac users are all about the machine, when the article written by a Mac user and repeatedly bumped by Mac users is all about how use of the Windows has dumbed people down? Are you for real, or just clowning?
So it is likely when Apple tanks OSX could be another free distro? Cool, no bloated expense for the hardware and Jobs trademarked name.
:-0
Thanks for the info.
LOL. XP is such a stable OS and has minimal overhead for what you can do. Also lots of Freeware out there!!!
I, er...what? You were drivin by, saw a Mac thread and decided to stop in to call Mac users twits, specifically, and you want to justify it cause the author said “Windows” made him “too stupid to use a Mac”. Come on Minn, you came to pick a fight. Mission accomplished.
The genesis of all windows systems came from the Xerox 8010 Star and 6085 computer systems. Xerox PARC scientists invented the mouse, networked storage, networked printing, email and the method used to map virtually every language to a computer keyboard.
The reason most people don't know about this is that Xerox management were idiots and gave a sneak peak to Steve Jobs and his Mac engineering team. They were rightfully blown away, because nobody had ever seen something as elegant and workable as the Xerox desktop.
I was fortunate to work for Xerox Parc during the early 1980's. Today, I use a Mac.
Idiots? They were very well compensated, and agreed beforehand.
QED.
You think this proves they were idiots? It’s not as if Xerox was getting anywhere with it on their own.
QED, again.
Had they not been idiots, Xerox could have been MSFT and AAPL rolled into one. Instead, they accepted a pittance. XRX shareholders were ill-served.
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