Who Can Really Take Credit For The Mac?
PIMPTRIX (264 pencils) | Tue, 2005-03-01 00:25http://www.forbes.com/entrepreneurs/2005/02/28/cx_ah_0228raskin.html?partner=yahoo&referrer=
Whenever you point and click and drag an icon around on a computer screen, you are doing so thanks to Jef Raskin, a pioneering computer engineer and father of the Macintosh computer. He died over the weekend, at 61, of pancreatic cancer.
Contrary to Silicon Valley lore it was Raskin and not Apple Computer (nasdaq: AAPL - news - people ) Chief Executive Steve Jobs who discovered and saw the marketability of technologies that would kick start the PC revolution.
The legend is that Jobs got a look at something called a Graphical User Interface (GUI) on a tour of Xerox's (nyse: XRX - news - people ) Palo Alto Research Center (Xerox PARC) in the late seventies. The GUI was a quantum leap in simplicity because it meant users could click on computer icons to open and move files. They didn't need to be familiar with computer programming. Jobs, according to lore, saw the GUI's potential and brought computers to market.[url][/url]
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Raskin was a self-absorbed, over-hyped putz... nuf said.
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We should all be happy that the world didn't wait for Jef Raskin or Xerox to bring the GUI, point, click and drag to us commoners. I really don't care who, where or when he got GUI from I say thank you Steve Jobs.
Yes all mighty Steeves Blow Jobs! Thank you! Thank you! Thanks for creating a monopoly computer so the small guys can't build it. Thanks for using an operating system that works on your machine alone that we can buy from you alone. Thank you! Thank you! We love you soo much for charging triple for the same memory chip than most people, and for using slow hard drives in your machines. Thanks for buying a good processor from Motorola and taking credit for it while using a Unix OS and once again, taking credit for it all.
I thank you Steeves for being there for us, without you, this planet would be doomed. I think of you all mighty every night and morning when I pray single handed next to my bed.
Seriously guys, Steeves Jobs is just a greedy business man who hasn't helped the world in any way. He does have a good product yes, because he knows where to buy his stuff, but I don't see why all that admiration for the guy!?
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PIMPTRIX wrote:
Steve Jobs is merely a master marketer. He has always been Apple's PT Barnum. When he hasn't been with the company, they have slumped horribly. Since he has returned to the company, things have improved drastically. Whether as a result of his handywork or whether he has just aligned the right people and resources around him, he has succeeded. He's the public face of the company, so he reaps the reward and accolades that come along, whether earned or otherwise.
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