[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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[SamAdams76]

Nice slideshow but I would have taken out either Lisa or HyperCard and put in iTunes. I don't think iTunes gets enough credit as it completely changed the business model of the recording industry and eventually put pretty much everything ever recorded at our fingertips (Apple Music).

There is now no need to ever purchase a piece of music again. But for an affordable monthly price, you can rent everything!

I wish I had all the money back that I spent on CDs and DVDs over the years, not to mention cassettes and vinyl LPs. Now when I want to listen to something, I just stream it on Apple Music regardless of whether I own it or not. All that physical media is sitting in cardboard boxes somewhere.

Recently I came across a set of National Geographic CDs that I bought back in the 1990s. It was 100 years of the National Geographic on CD. I remember convincing my wife to buy it because our children, who were still young at the time, would have an excellent state-of-the-art reference library at their fingertips. But really, I wanted it for myself as well. But it was so cumbersome to use because the software kept telling you to "insert Disc 42" or "insert Disc 27." Can't believe I spent hundreds of dollars on it.

I also purchased the Encyclopedia Brittanica and Microsoft Encarta on CD. How dumb was that? My kids never used it once. They grew up on the web and Wikipedia. They laugh when they come across my collection of "compact discs".

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

When Steve Jobs returned to Apple after the NeXT acquisition, very little of the NeXT technology came with him. One thing that did, though, was the NeXTSTEP operating system, built on the Mach kernal. Mach wasn't Unix (nor was it Linux), but it contained pieces gleaned from BSD and was a very Unix-like platform. Mach is still the basis of OS X as it continues to evolve.

And yet we know that, as of Leopard, OS X is Unix™.