I think Travis' APPL shares are the source of the statements =)
Josh Luthman Office: 937-552-2340 Direct: 937-552-2343 1100 Wayne St Suite 1337 Troy, OH 45373 On Tue, Feb 2, 2016 at 1:30 PM, Travis Johnson <t...@ida.net> wrote: > > http://www.investopedia.com/articles/personal-finance/012815/how-steve-jobs-changed-world.asp > > I'm not sure "laughable" would be the correct term.... the rest of the > world doesn't agree with you, at all. > > Travis > > > On 2/2/2016 10:34 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. > > > > *-- Samuel Kirsch, Network Support Plexicomm - Internet Solutions | > <http://www.plexicomm.net>www.plexicomm.net <http://www.plexicomm.net>* > * Office: 1.866.759.4678 x109 <1.866.759.4678%20x109> | Fax: > 1.866.852.4688 <1.866.852.4688>* > *Emergency Support: 1.866.759.9713 <1.866.759.9713> | sam...@plexicomm.net > <sam...@plexicomm.net>* > > > > ------ Original Message ------ > From: "Josh Luthman" <j...@imaginenetworksllc.com> > To: 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 > Office: 937-552-2340 > Direct: 937-552-2343 > 1100 Wayne St > Suite 1337 > Troy, OH 45373 > On Feb 2, 2016 12:22 AM, "Travis Johnson" <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> >> t...@ida.net> wrote: >> >>> >>> <http://www.ibtimes.com/alphabet-inc-goog-surpasses-apple-inc-aapl-become-worlds-most-valuable-public-company-2289113> >>> 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 >>> >>> >> >> >
