Preminuo je William English, jedan od izumitelja r

Steve Posao se sjetio izreke od Pablo Picasso:Good artists copy, great artists steal.

Sad kad živimo u doba di svatko svakog tužaka za povredu patenata...di se mogu geometrijski likovi patentirati...što bi se desilo da su ovi pioniri bili tako sebični i  da su te svoje inovacije patentirati...

Još bi lutali Afrikom

Možete li mi pojasniti nešto

Kakav je dogovor sklopio Jobs sa Bill Gatesom prije nego što je shvatio da je pokraden ? Što je Jobs očekivao od Gatesa ? 

 MS je u to vrijeme bio kompanija koja je jako tijesno surađivala s Appleom. Skoro 50% svih prihoda ostvarivali su kroz Apple i programe/aplikacije koje su za njih proizvodili. Gates je u to vrijeme za Mac/Apple govorio ovako: "To create a new standard it takes something that's not just a little bit different, it takes something that's really new and really captures people's attention. And the Macintosh, of all the machines I've seen, is the only one that meets that standard."
Jednostavno nije računao da će Microsoft prekopirati njihov OS i time se odmaknuti od Applea.
Najgore od svega Jobsu se to dogodilo dva puta.
Drugi put mu se skoro identična stvar dogodila s Googleom koji je tijesno surađivao na izradi iOS-a, prvenstveno Google usluga (Google maps) na prvom iOS-u, a toliko im je vjerovao da je Eric Schmidt (tadašnji CEO Googlea) bio u nadzornom odboru Applea... ostalo je povijest.

 Suradjivali su, ali ne toliko tijesno koliko impliciras. To ti je neka alternativna stvarnost. 

 Evo onda malo alternativne stvarnsti od Bill Gatesa, Steve Jobsa i Jeff Raikesa :-)

"When Apple developed the Macintosh Bill Gates and his team were the most important software partner – despited the fact that Microsoft was also the driving force behind the IBM PC and the PC clones. And Steve Jobs even invited Bill Gates for the preview of the Mac.

Bill Gates: "During 1984, Microsoft expects to get half of its revenues from software for the Macintosh.”

When Microsoft provided their BASIC for the Apple II, Steve Jobs and Bill Gates constantly ran into each other at that time.

“Even before we finished our work on the IBM PC, Steve Jobs came and talked about what he wanted to do, what he thought he could do, sort of a Lisa but cheaper. We said boy, we’d love to help out”, Gates remembers: “The Lisa had all its own applications, but of course they required a lot of memory, ah, and we thought we could do better, and so Steve signed a deal with us to actually provide bundled applications for the first Mac, and so we were big believers in the Mac and what Steve was doing there.”

Apple urgently needed software for the Mac, as there did not yet exist any program for the new system except for their in-house products MacWrite and MacPaint. Gates promised to have the programs Chart and File written for the Mac in addition to the spreadsheet program Excel. Steve Jobs appreciated the risk Microsoft took, but was not content with the first results though. Steve Jobs:“Most people don’t remember, but until the Mac, Microsoft was not in the applications business… it was dominated by Lotus. And Microsoft took a big gamble to write for the Mac.”

Jeff Raikes, who was responsible for the Office business at Microsoft until early 2008, reviews: “And so we got started in early 1982 on our Macintosh software effort and I think at that point in time, you know, it really clicked with Bill that, you know, graphic user interface was going to be the way, the way of the future. But while Bill was having his own GUI revelation, Jobs believed that Apple’s true enemy was IBM.”

Windows 1.01 was based on DOS and was incredibly slow, but it reminded one of the Macintosh GUI in some features. In order to prevent Apple from taking legal action, Gates put the screws on Apple boss Sculley. His message was: As soon as Apple sends out the lawyers, Microsoft will immediately stop the development of Word and Excel for the Mac. Since Apple was depending on the Microsoft applications, Sculley licensed some of the Mac technologies to Microsoft."

Par desetljeća kasnije isto vrijedi za Schmidta i njegove citate o iOS-u i iPhoneu, gdje ekipi u Googleu/Androidu govori kako Apple ima nešto super i da su oni (Google/Android) otišli u krivom smjeru. Dok usko surađuje s Appleom oko implementacije Google mapsa u iOS-u, ali i ostalih Google servisa i sjedi u upravnom odboru Applea lagano se sprema zajebat Apple i napraviti vrlo sličnu stvar koju je napravio Microsoft 80. i neke.