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No-Friends_sadLYF t1_iu79qua wrote
I would thank this guy at Microsoft
Major_Television559 t1_iu7g0zj wrote
Thank you to Billy G and most thank yeww to Steven Paul Jobs. In addition, a heart felt thank you to China and California for holding hands in unity of the holy slab.
iNoles t1_iu93919 wrote
I remembered when Steve Ballmer thought iPhone was a joke that nobody would buy it.
Sixstringerman t1_iu9okid wrote
Microsoft held an iphone funeral shortly after releasing their first Windows phone
OverlyOptimisticNerd t1_iucc9o4 wrote
Windows Phone was amazing. Microsoft just couldn’t get out of their own way.
frendzoned_by_yo_mom t1_iucx8qz wrote
Google blocking their services any way possible and Snapchat being also for some reason against Windows phones helped a lot
mydogsnameisbuddy t1_iu9rlot wrote
The Ballmer years were dark times for Microsoft.
SpeedyGoldenberg t1_iu9ru58 wrote
They still suck bro. They only rely on office and copying apples Mac OS features.
aafnp t1_iua4228 wrote
You realize Microsoft is the most diversified of all the tech companies, right? Office and windows aren’t even two of their biggest businesses or growth generators.
15000yuki t1_iub3qau wrote
There you're wrong.
People know Microsoft from their Windows and Office. Surprisingly their most profit is from cloud business.
jnlake2121 t1_iua3z4j wrote
They got Xbox. But I do miss their phones from the 2010s. I personally liked it more than androids OS
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cha614 t1_iu87r5u wrote
What an abrupt and strange ending
Dash-Ryprock t1_iu8ysiw wrote
This incident is recounted in Isaacson’s book on Jobs. Apparently this all started when Micro Dude had a little to much vino at a Job’s house party, and started talking smack.
toluwalase t1_iu9uk2k wrote
What an annoying title
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Puzzleheaded-Bee3535 t1_iu9qcnc wrote
Haha nerd fight 🤣
Hatefull_creeper2 t1_iu8ch6m wrote
Same with the iPad
Massive_Escape3061 t1_iuaassc wrote
A friend’s son works for Ms and worked on the phone project. Can confirm they thought it was going to be the greatest. It felt like they were working on it for years before it debuted. Maybe they took too long.
ExcellentPut8 OP t1_iubkqgu wrote
Makes ya Think this is incredibly interesting.
Nikobobinous t1_iu7mk9n wrote
You forgot about all the East Asian factory workers who are entirely disenfranchised and prefer to off themselves ‘on shift’ than rebel against their corporate globalist enslavers. I think of them daily as I wield this slab
Hippiebigbuckle t1_iu9ronz wrote
They’re not allowed to vote?
DummyDumDump t1_iu94n1z wrote
It’s okay, they moved the factory to India now. Nothing bad can happen there /s
WrongTechnology2762 t1_iu9ecjx wrote
No thanks to Ivan Sutherland of the University Of Utah’s Computer Science department. Sketchpad: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sketchpad
See also distinguished alumni “let’s go Utah!”: https://www.cs.utah.edu/about/history/
WrongTechnology2762 t1_iu9e77r wrote
No thanks to Ivan Sutherland of the University Of Utah’s Computer Science department. Sketchpad: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sketchpad
See also distinguished alumni “let’s go Utah!”:
WikiSummarizerBot t1_iu9e8u9 wrote
>Sketchpad (a. k. a. Robot Draftsman) is a computer program written by Ivan Sutherland in 1963 in the course of his PhD thesis, for which he received the Turing Award in 1988, and the Kyoto Prize in 2012.
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xirvin t1_iu8zo1h wrote
LOL, how to minimize the work of a thousand people at apple without mentioning them..
NeatFool t1_iu90y6a wrote
Who made the decision to put them on that path?
xirvin t1_iu91v3i wrote
The executive team, managers. Jobs alone didn’t create his iPhone from vacuum nor was the sole one pushing for the iPhone vision inside the company.
Jean Marie Hullot push the idea for an iPhone to Jobs in 2000’s
NeatFool t1_iu979lw wrote
Pretty sure Steve Jobs invented computers bro
iLoveBeefFat t1_iu8xljg wrote
Oh, I thought he liked billions of dollar in profit
dpacker780 t1_iu960bv wrote
Comically, I know exactly who the guy is.
dpacker780 t1_iuabj01 wrote
It’s funny I was downvoted. I actually worked with the guy in the late 90s for 3 years when I was at SGI prior to him leaving to take a spot at MS focused on what eventually became the tablet PC. Small world.
ArminVonKink t1_iu9b6g2 wrote
Actually, it’s because the US government funded 2/3 of its development!
bibim_bob t1_iua48ek wrote
Sauce?
ArminVonKink t1_iuacksq wrote
There is this nifty device called a search engine that allows you to find whatever you are looking for on the internet… For example:
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/economy/the-entrepreneurial-state-appl
yanggor1983 t1_iu8gzi4 wrote
If he is still alive today, we will all have flying cars already. He is undoubtedly one of the most difficult leaders to work with. Because ordinary people don’t have his vision and determination. Miss you , Steve! I still keep your iPhone 4s and ipad 2 ( the last two products that you personally introduced to us).
Bringmepeterpan t1_iu9ye5r wrote
Christ. Get a grip of yourself
donthavenick t1_iu8x5uj wrote
From Guardian:
> The unnamed Microsoft executive, who was apparently the husband of a friend of Jobs’s wife Laurene Powell Jobs, continuously talked and bragged about Redmond-based company’s plans for tablets and styluses, so much so that Jobs decided to try and beat him.
> After being badgered by the Microsoft executive over dinner for the 10th time, being told how Microsoft was going to change the world with its tablet PC software and stylus and that Apple should just license it, Jobs lost patience and, as recounted in Walter Isaacson’s Jobs biography, said: “Fuck this, let’s show him what a tablet can really be”.