Yup. I had a Handspring Visor back in the pre-smartphone era. Then I had
a Palm Treo, and eventually a Palm Pre. Those were all great machines in
the day. They got dated, and I moved on.
Twenty years from now might be very interesting, or very boring. Hope
I'm still around to find out.
bp
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On 2/2/2016 9:34 AM, Sam Kirsch wrote:
Tablets would most certainly be around, companies started to try and
make them in the 1980s. MP3 players too. All these things existed
well before the iPod and the iPhone, and multiple companies had been
working on them already for decades. These things are all just
glorified PDA's, the Palm Pilot I had in 1998 pretty must disproves
any "X wouldn't be around without Y company" Technology is technology
and progress is progress... there's nothing groundbreaking here about
Apple AT ALL. My first couple PDA's had WiFi and GPS and there was
definitely a Palm Pilot PDA/Phone combo out around the time
Blackberry's started to appear a lot more, this is all before the
iPhone.... it may be just before or around when the iPod first came
out though. To think that technology wouldn't have made that leap to
full modern smartphones and tablets on its own without the likes of
Steve Jobs is just laughable.
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------ Original Message ------
From: "Josh Luthman" <j...@imaginenetworksllc.com
<mailto:j...@imaginenetworksllc.com>>
To: af@afmug.com <mailto:af@afmug.com>
Sent: 2/2/2016 12:28:15 AM
Subject: Re: [AFMUG] SAD day
The world's most popular site and you don't think the world would
change? Really???
Apple is gone. People buy Blackberries and Android. Tablets
probably won't exist. Mp3 players would probably have come to
fruition without them. What else do they have?
Josh Luthman
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Direct: 937-552-2343
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On Feb 2, 2016 12:22 AM, "Travis Johnson" <t...@ida.net
<mailto:t...@ida.net>> wrote:
At least Apple makes products... products that literally changed
the computing world, the phone world, the retail world, created
apps, and the music world. Google created a search engine
(actually copying Yahoo, Webcrawler, Altavista and several others
at the time). They aren't a "product". They don't "sell"
anything. They are a webpage, just like Facebook.
Imagine your life without Google or Facebook. NOTHING CHANGES.
Yes, they built a better mousetrap using their intelligence and
hard work... but they aren't "inventors". They didn't create
anything new or groundbreaking.
Travis
On 2/1/2016 10:09 PM, Colin Stanners wrote:
I'd much rather Google / Alphabet Inc. be in that position than
Apple with their overpriced yet restricted / non-upgradable /
crappy consumer electronics.
Google is making themselves the curator of access to the world's
information and communications. When you consider the value of
those, it's not just the most valuable company in matters of
money. The founders had incredible foresight in addition to
their intelligence and hard work.
On Mon, Feb 1, 2016 at 10:55 PM, Travis Johnson <t...@ida.net
<mailto:t...@ida.net>> wrote:
http://www.ibtimes.com/alphabet-inc-goog-surpasses-apple-inc-aapl-become-worlds-most-valuable-public-company-2289113
"The world isn't run by weapons anymore, or energy, or
money. It's run by little ones and zeroes, little bits of
data. It's all just electrons."
~ Cosmo (Sneakers 1992)
Literally, a one page website for a company that is less
than 19 years old is now the most valuable company in the
world. :(
Travis
