Early college daze, January 1984. 25 years ago. A quarter century. Yikes!
You younguns don't know what the early days of the PC revolution was like. Laugh at this video, but the Mac was revolutionary for its time. If the Mac never existed I am sure we would have eventually gotten proportionally-spaced fonts and a nice tidy mouse interface. It still took Microsoft 9 years to catch up*, though.
Rumor has it that Steve Jobs is on his last legs, and frankly based upon his last public appearance I would have to say that the rumor isn't entirely unfounded. The fear is Apple is doomed without Jobs. I don't think so. If a company is reliant upon one person that company isn't much to begin with. I'm not a fanboi, I simply appreciate superior products. I am certain that Apple has groomed many talented engineers to fill Jobs' shoes.
* My recollection is that Windows 3.1 was the first Microsoft GUI interface that gained widespread acceptance. It wasn't until 1993 that people were really adapting Windows, and I think the Solitaire and Minesweeper programs helped sell it.
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Jobs had one of these:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whipple_procedure
one of the known side effects is singificant weight loss (he'll be using supplements for the rest of his life)
Jobs didn't exactly have much weight to spare before the surgery.
After I graduated from college in 1994, I took a job with a chemical company in Wisconsin. They still had the Macintosh computers at this location. I checked my computer and discovered it was built in 1987, with the black-and-white screen. We had much better computers on campus but I figured that was to be expected because this chemical facility kept costs down like you wouldn't believe. I remember it would always take about 2 minutes to start Microsoft Word. By late 1995, we upgraded to Windows-based computers.
Oddly enough, I went looking for info a couple of weeks ago when I first read the renewed rumors of Jobs' ill health.
I hadn't read this article before but found it very interesting. It's from Fortune (originally): http://money.cnn.com/2008/03/02/news/companies/elkind_jobs.fortune/index.htm?postversion=2008030513
Happy 2009!
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