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To: Secret Agent Man; All

I found this article earlier today about the reactions of some to the movie, and am posting it here for everyone’s consideration.

All I can say is that without Steve Jobs, our little mom and pop architectural design, project management, and construction management firm would have been difficult to run profitably.

The two of us were able to make a good living, without having to hire employees, and support our family of four children.

For that I am grateful to Apple, and the MacIntosh computers that we used over the years.

http://www.wsj.com/articles/apple-co-founders-allies-take-aim-at-hollywood-over-steve-jobs-1444000308


30 posted on 10/04/2015 6:02:09 PM PDT by jacquej ("You cannot have a conservative government with a liberal culture." (Mark Steyn))
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To: jacquej

my comment was about accurately documenting a person. i made no comment about apple products themselves. you can get a bunch of folks saying the same thing about pcs, or windows.


32 posted on 10/04/2015 6:17:30 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: jacquej
Yep. Pagemaker started a whole new world in the medium of print -- "anybody" could do it. The commerce and employment -- mine, for example! -- that it allowed to blossom was enormous. Thanks to Jobs and Apple.

The key to Pagemaker and Apple was its easy intuitive design. It was pretty easy to figure out how to do all kinds of things. There were even keyboard shortcuts in case you didn't want to remove your hand from the keyboard while working. The word processing program worked great with it, always reliable, except you got in the habit of saving frequently if you were smart.

The "Windows" concept people use today was a rip-off from Apple, bigger than life. I hated PCs (until I had to convert to them, alas) and to this day find Windows a bad imitation of Apple.

44 posted on 10/05/2015 7:37:41 PM PDT by Finny (Be prepared to own what you vote for. Voting "against" is a mathematical fallacy.)
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