RIP Steve Jobs

[minestrone]

Never have got all this revisionist theory about the iPhone where it has somehow allowed people to talk, marketing genius more than technical marvel, Jobs could have stood up and sold a turd and people would have bought it.

[Zoiderman]

I had the same thing for a while. I was doing more .Net back then so it didn't make any sense to get a Mac. Now I'm doing less .Net and I have Windows 7 as a dual boot/virtual machine so I've got that covered. I also wanted to try some iPhone app development so the Mac suddenly became the more sensible option.

Funny enough, just moving to .NET for a new client.

I know we'll have an iPad and iMac within a few weeks, so may prove to have bene wrong, and they are that much better. I daresay if it does, the wife will then want a new phone too, which I am actually interested in, for GIS applications....

[DimPrawn]

Never have got all this revisionist theory about the iPhone where it has somehow allowed people to talk, marketing genius more than technical marvel, Jobs could have stood up and sold a turd and people would have bought it.

[d000hg]

Never bought into iTulip they bought out, he wasn't an innovator, the iPod was just a modern take on the personal tape players of the 80's, and, iirc, wasn't even the first PMP on the market. His stuff just looked nice. Battery was tulip, so you couldn't track a proper bike ride. Just a bunch of useless tulip; nothing Apple have produced has changed my life, and most around me. Biggest bunch of over hyped tulipe I have seen in ages. A buddhist with $8.3bn personal wealth. Yup, that makes proper sense.

Pfft

I don't even particularly like Apple products, but you're an ignoramus. These days, people buy iPhones/iPods because it's a huge brand. But the first iPod got to be the new word for Walkman based on being a bloody good product. Similar the first iPhone... and the MacBook Air... and the iPad.

The biggest electronics companies have spent $billions playing catch-up. Modern smartphones, music players, laptops and tablets are all influenced by Apple for the better.

[TimCaprica]

VMWare

Our next computer will be a MAC and I'll do the dual boot/VM thingy.

I've got a Macbook and occasionally need to use Windows stuff. I got annoyed with the dual boot thing, it somehow kept getting corrupted so I just deleted the partition and gave up on it.

Is VM at all difficult to set up for a reasonably nerdy non IT guy? Do you have to pay £60 or whatever for VMWare or are there cheapy ways to do it?

@TimCaprica

[eek]

I've got a Macbook and occasionally need to use Windows stuff. I got annoyed with the dual boot thing, it somehow kept getting corrupted so I just deleted the partition and gave up on it.

Is VM at all difficult to set up for a reasonably nerdy non IT guy? Do you have to pay £60 or whatever for VMWare or are there cheapy ways to do it?

@TimCaprica

Vmware is £23 if you follow the advice here

[TimCaprica]

Vmware is £23 if you follow the advice here

Thanks. I might do that.

I'm not sure when I decided I should be paying for software. Never used to be like that.

[DimPrawn]

When Bill Gates kicks the bucket, will the media be gushing about Clippy and the Blue Screen of Death?

[NickFitz]

From the bookshelf, a rather dogeared copy of Byte from November 1988, featuring the NeXT cube: Steve Jobs' new "machine for the '90s"
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For those who like such things, I've scanned the entire review (eleven pages of text, plus photos and diagrams - eighteen pages in all) and put the scans online for your viewing/downloading pleasure: Byte, November 1988: NeXT review

[Cliphead]

For those who like such things, I've scanned the entire review (eleven pages of text, plus photos and diagrams - eighteen pages in all) and put the scans online for your viewing/downloading pleasure: Byte, November 1988: NeXT review

Very interesting Nick. Back in day the Nice office of ClientCo had a NeXT box, not sure which hardware but they let me loose on it as they didn't actually know what to do with it after purchasing. I didn't know what to do with it either but was fun to play around with whenever I was down their way.