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Imagine in 30 years when the tech they are working on is common. Or imagine Woz with the Apple II. Now looking back on it, did it really matter that you put in
by x5n1 11y ago
Imagine in 30 years when the tech they are working on is common. Or imagine Woz with the Apple II. Now looking back on it, did it really matter that you put in all your waking hours into making the Apple II? Does anyone really care?
- cec 11y agoI'm not sure if I can agree with that reasoning. Sure, no-one is impressed with an Apple II now, but that doesn't degrade how significant it was then. By that measure, did the Wright bothers really need to put in all of that time since today we have 747s?
- leonroy 11y agoWithout it Apple arguably would not be around today. In any case the people who purchased it certainly did care. We all build upon what came before. It's hard to predict the outcome of the Apple II not existing but it would at the very least have changed the course of computing history if Apple were not around today.
- prodmerc 11y agoWozniak? I believe he loved every minute of it - he said it himself, he loved just building stuff. The fact that many people benefited from his tinkering is just a byproduct...