Posted on 01/26/2019 11:03:23 AM PST by Menehune56
“For Apple I introducing the paradigm shift
Of a genuinely useful pocket computer”
I had a more powerful pocket computer before the iPhone. It just didn’t make phone calls.
“And what universe did you go to school in? “
FSU. 1965
Steve Jobs created a general purpose shrunken fully functional computer. We are nowhere near the limits of its potential.
It can be used for a myriad of purposes. If some people use it to send inane banal droolings of 280 characters or less, that comes nowhwere near defining the device. It can be used to receive the warm pings of social approval delivered in the form of a “Like” or a tweet or it can be used to apply for a job at NASA. For rich mental dwarfs possessing poor judgement, it can be used to read the NYTimes. For intelligent people, it can deliver Free Republic.
The device does not compel. It obeys.
“Steve Jobs created a general purpose shrunken fully functional computer. “
No. He put phone capabilities into a functional pocket computer.
Use it and lose it.
After a time, you will fail to remember your number, your son’s number, daughter’s number, BFF’s number. Hell, you’ll forget how to read a time piece with hands.
Oh, to be a teenager once more...when we actually enjoyed a phone conversation for hours on end!
That is almost as stupid as your nancy is President post
Some one must have put a burr in your sadlle
You have just announced to the world that you are irrelevant and do not matter.
Did he really believe he created something static and perfect that couldn't or wouldn't evolve?
...He put phone capabilities into a functional pocket computer.
And when he did, I could ditch my pager, which I hated, forever
I am waiting for the next paradigm shift
Wherever it comes from
Although I may be too old to use or appreciate
Apple has been an Idea Machine for many years
But Steve Jobs was a “ One Off”
The way I make your statement is the I phone is a computer with a telephone ap. A cell phone is a radio receiver /transmitter.
Apple was smart. Apple knew that computer fearing women would never buy one because it would be too hard. They did away with programs and created aps. Mentally, the I phone handheld computer became easy and acceptable.
Hell, you’ll forget how to read a time piece with hands.
No, I won't. One of the widgets I use on my smart phone is a proper round-faced clock, with elegant hands. I've had youngsters peering over my shoulder saying "what is THAT?"
i don’t like how this journalist is trying to put words in the mouth of a dead person.
My first computer class was on the Apple IIe in the mid ‘80s in high school. I miss the ‘80s!
Huh? I'm pushing 60, took computer classes in college, used computers in most of my engineering coursework (not CS, CE, or EE).
“... son now 52 ... no computer classes back when he went to college...”
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I am 67 years old and learned BASIC and FORTRAN in college in 1971.
LOL, for a fun time, ask them to use a rotary phone, preferably one connected to a party line. One ringy dingy...
How far we have come to find we were hijacked in Duluth.
Life made simple - isn’t.
I misspoke about computer classes when my son was in college. I just got off the phone with him, and there were classes at Oswego State (NY) back then, mostly DOS related, but he wasn't interested in any of that stuff back then. I just assumed they hadn't had any. I can't remember when he bought his first computer, but it was a Commodore 64, and I recall him using an Oki-data printer. At some point he began using Apple computers, and the first one I bought was his old Performa 405. That was my first computer. He's moved on to PC's, and uses Linux, and he creates mods for Fallout 3 and 4 games, plus live streams on YouTube on weekends. It's a hobby for him.
“There were no computer classes back when he went to college.”
He is now 52. Thirty years ago was 1988.
The universities had computer departments way back in the 1970s.
I know that there were computer classes in high schools in Canada in the late 1970’s, so what kind of college did your son go to?
Bull. Well, maybe not in his college. He's 52, I'm nearly 70. Where I went to college, there were a few computer classes. For me, it was mainframes and minis. But a few courses existed at the university level. We dealt with machine code, and memory modules had toroid cores. At the JC level, computer training was embedded in other courses such as physics, chemistry and math. I learned BASIC in a chemistry class on a PDP mini around 1971. More fun later when micros came out so I could program on my own computer.
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