Happy 3-0 Apple
This piece by John Welch, is perhaps the single best thing I have seen written about Apple on their 30th birthday.
With April 1st, 2006 being Apple's 30th birthday, of course, there's a lot of talk about the birth of the company, Steve Jobs, the Mac, the iPod, and Apple's innovative role in the industry. But so many people look at the GUI and stop there. Now, don't get me wrong, if Apple had only created the first successful mass-market GUI-based OS, the folks who created the Mac could do nothing more than sleep late the rest of their lives and still be a success.
But stopping at the GUI is like limiting Led Zeppelin to "Stairway to Heaven"...that's only part of the story, and not even the start...
This piece by John Welch, is perhaps the single best thing I have seen written about Apple on their 30th birthday.
With April 1st, 2006 being Apple's 30th birthday, of course, there's a lot of talk about the birth of the company, Steve Jobs, the Mac, the iPod, and Apple's innovative role in the industry. But so many people look at the GUI and stop there. Now, don't get me wrong, if Apple had only created the first successful mass-market GUI-based OS, the folks who created the Mac could do nothing more than sleep late the rest of their lives and still be a success.
But stopping at the GUI is like limiting Led Zeppelin to "Stairway to Heaven"...that's only part of the story, and not even the start...
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