tldr but is there a fight i can antagonize here? On Tue, Feb 2, 2016 at 1:23 PM, Travis Johnson <t...@ida.net> wrote:
> Naw... I made my money on AAPL shares over a year ago... and some on > Facebook and even Netflix... but I got out of the market about six months > ago. ;) > > Travis > > > On 2/2/2016 11:34 AM, Josh Luthman wrote: > > 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 <sam...@plexicomm.net>* >> >> >> >> ------ Original Message ------ >> From: "Josh Luthman" < <j...@imaginenetworksllc.com> >> 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>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 >>>> >>>> "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 >>>> >>>> >>> >>> >> > > -- If you only see yourself as part of the team but you don't see your team as part of yourself you have already failed as part of the team.
