[Swordmaker]

Information Week's slide show of 12 Apple products that they say "changed computing forever." What do you think? Are they right in their choices? Did they hit it right or miss some? — PING!

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Did they ever make a 12 baud modem?

[FatherofFive]

Apple made many of the Star Trek inventions real.

Cant wait for replicators, warp drive and transporters.

[factoryrat]

I took some compuer classes in junior high in the early 80’s. We had our choice of apple II’s, Commodore VIC 20’s, and IBM XT/AT computers. The things that you could do with less than 32k of memory.

[TXnMA]

From the Apple ][ through the iPod, (except for Lisa) I still have at least one working example of all those listed -- and many more.

When I retired, I retired my cell phone, wristwatch and Daytimer -- so I don't need or own their Apple equivalents.

In our work of mapping the pioneer/Spanish/Indian roads & trails of Texas, my colleagues (fellow "Rut Nuts") and I use Google Earth as our geodatabase and KML as our data exchange format. If Google ever "un-crippled" its mobile app by giving it full KML power, we'd probably all go into the field with GPS-enabled iPads...

I do own Windows machines for running GIS & graphics systems no longer supported for the Mac, but, frankly don't know where they are right now...

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For 40 years, Apple has managed to meet, or exceed -- or anticipate -- my needs. And all my Apple equipment -- oldest to newest -- still works.

I suppose you could say I'm a well-satisfied 40-year customer...

[Gay State Conservative]

Apple's latest achievement?

PUBLICLY...AND DEFIANTLY...ANNOUNCING ITS SUPPORT OF JIHADIS,DRUG RUNNERS AND KIDDIE PORN AFICIANADOS

Kinda makes ya wonder what makes Little Timmy Cook tick.

[Vermont Lt]

Wow. I guess I am a Mac nerd. I had an Apple II, IIc, And I own an iPod, IPhone, iPad, and a MacBook Pro.

I had to sit down with a Windows computer the other day and I was like trying to talk in a different language.

[llevrok]

There is no question about how Apple changed things- from the personal PC, iPod to iPhone. I am blah on the watch idea.

I keep wondering - what’s the next big thing? It seems that their recent big announcements are little more than upgrades of current products.