If only Steve Jobs had taken the traditional medicine route he would have been with us for another 50 years.
Wow talk about drinking the kool aid. Apple did not invent the wireless mouse, that honor belongs to Logitech[1].
[1]:http://www.macworld.com/article/1137400/input-devices/mouse4...
Once every few months you'll run into someone who uses a Magic Mouse, but it's practically a novelty item.
As far as I remember, every Mac user outside of schools was already on the Logitech mouse train back then, thanks to Apple's stubborn insistence that 1-button was the platonic ideal of computer input devices.
Personally, I had the Logitech S530 Cordless Desktop for Mac, which was a keyboard/mouse set that came out around the same time as the wireless Mighty Mouse did. The 8 buttons were great for Exposé shortcuts.
I strongly disagree with these classes of statements. Would we not have calculus without Newton? Great ideas tend to often happen simultaneously for a reason.
Building of more complex abstractions (metaphors in the context of language) allows us collectively to consider ideas that previously we could have never considered (i.e. it increases our perception). Julian Jaynes on the power of metaphor for unlocking new ideas:
> All of these concrete metaphors increase enormously our powers of perception of the world about us and our understanding of it, and literally create new objects. Indeed, language is an organ of perception, not simply a means of communication.
If Jobs and crew hadn't done what they did, someone else would have. The timeline may not have been the same, but even 'geniuses' must exist within the context of their society and world.
I can't. I'm not usually a fan of the Great Man theory of history, but I literally cannot think of any individual working in electronics/computing/software with a similar set of abilities and drives.
By default, computer systems tend to be ugly and hard to use. It took someone who wasn't primarily a developer or engineer to push the field in a different direction.
There really aren't many people with entrepreneurial skills and aesthetic sense who can manage engineers in anything like the same way.
Its unfortunate he chose to not use proven medicine as a treatment, though.
"Great things in business are never done by one person. They're done by a team of people." Steve Jobs
It would have been far more efficient to build the thing as a few 12-14 story buildings in the nearest city.
[edit] Plus: "It is also the site of the world’s largest naturally ventilated building, projected to require no heating or air conditioning for nine months of the year." That's probably tough to do with a box in the city.
Apple has taken away precisely what from the public by replacing it with this?
I don't think anyone here is saying this is awful. It's just not necessarily praiseworthy.
The standard 12 story mid-rise buildings in DC are built with glass walls so that light doesn't get caught in outer offices.
The amount of space we use for office parks is tiny in comparison with the amount of space we use for agriculture. Only 3% of the land used in the US is urban sprawl-- less than the total acreage of a single crop, alfalfa hay. https://www.westernwatersheds.org/watmess/watmess_2002/2002h...
Of course, Cupertino's public transportation sucks. But so does San Francisco's, even though it's tiny. Maybe stop bragging about where you live, and find something else to be a snob about.
im pretty sure a lot of people use wired mice and have black boxes as their desktop computer case.
I very much enjoy the worry-free experience with zero environmental impact and maintenance cost of wired compared to wireless mice and keyboards. You can pry them from my cold, dead hands.
I still use a wired mouse, because it's superior to a wireless mouse.
My laptop happens to be black and happens to not be particularly attractive, but it's superior to an Apple laptop.
The Macbook 12" is an underpowered Fiscer-Price-like toy with a crappy keyboard and one (ONE!) USB-C port and nothing else... well, except a good screen.
The current MBA is a text-book example of an intentionally under-specified product designed not to undercut the more expensive offering. If they put a good screen into the MBA form-factor a lot less people would buy the MBP. People who can't innovate their way out of a paper bag are terribly afraid of cannibalization of existing product lines. Jobs wasn't.
One of the great things I think he did was to introduce the MBA and to drive down its price point so that lots of people could and did buy it. For all of his faults, I think he did have a democratic kind of vision that great computers should not be reserved for the rich.
That's a mighty fine assumption you are making there. Please share with me how you know this? Are you a future seeing oncologist that can see how his body would have reacted to specific treatments, or maybe you know more details than the rest of us about the exact mutation?
His chances would have dramatically increase had he used traditional medicine.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/01/health/hindsight-is-kind-t...