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Gotta love those timescales! I don't know what you can build in 4 hours but the Fedex (even in 1996) certainly is somewhat hyperbolic! "For example, it took Federal Express four months to build its Web site – using WebObjects, you could build that same site in four hours."
It's 1996 and they're tossing around the term "apps."
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He was an amazing man. All of the hate is because he dared to follow that vision where it went, instead of merely being a vendor of software for Microsoft, or subservient to Google (eg: Apple built the entire infrastructure to do maps merely because Google wanted to sell apple customers information.) I've yet to meet a Steve Jobs hater who actually understood what the guy did. The steve jobs hate is all ideological a…
I'd suggest reading any of his biographies or watching Pirates of Silicon Valley. My problem is not with Apple at all, it's with the man himself.
You don't hate him because he treated his employees like shit. Screwed many of them out of stock options. Turned his back on his own child. Created one of the largest walled gardens in the IT world. yada yada yada.
Get over your PC Master Race ideals, bro.
It's 1996 and they're tossing around the term "apps."
It's 1996 and they're tossing around the term "apps."
It's 1996 and they're tossing around the term "apps."
This surprised me too. Of course I'm not surprised to learn that the term was used before it was popularized for iOS devices, but I'm VERY surprised to see it thrown about so liberally in this article. I really don't remember the term back then.
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I'd suggest reading any of his biographies or watching Pirates of Silicon Valley. My problem is not with Apple at all, it's with the man himself.
What has he done to you to make you so upset about him?
Edit: I don't like the way he treat his friends, family, staff or even applicants, details you can get by reading the biographies or watching the documentaries as I've said before.
It's 1996 and they're tossing around the term "apps."
The Herring: What do you think about Netscape’s vision that someday soon we will all be automatically hooked to the Net when we boot up our computers, and their Navigator platform will be our primary interface to the world? Jobs: I wish the world could work that easily, but it doesn’t. You are talking about ideas, I am talking about reality.
20 years later with Chromebooks this finally happened.
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I'd suggest reading any of his biographies or watching Pirates of Silicon Valley. My problem is not with Apple at all, it's with the man himself.
What has he done to you to make you so upset about him?
You clearly have an issue with him? It's just interesting to see what that may be and whether it might able to be substantiated.
