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I'm gonna have to agree and say that the hyperbole about what this man accomplished is over-the-top. He didn't change the world in any meaningful way. He made g
by hackinthebochs 15y ago
I'm gonna have to agree and say that the hyperbole about what this man accomplished is over-the-top. He didn't change the world in any meaningful way. He made great products, and that's about as far as his influence extends to the world.
The guy who invented the toilet "changed the world". Mark Zuckerburg has changed the world far more than Steve Jobs. Sometimes people need a reality check.
- Cushman 15y agoOh, yeah. Facebook would definitely have happened the same way without the Macintosh. Seriously, do you guys not know who we're talking about here?
- hackinthebochs 15y agoPerhaps I'm a little too young to fully understand the history here, and yeah he's had his influence on computing in many ways. But so have a lot of other people who were far more influential that have wallowed in obscurity. Correct me if I'm wrong, but macintosh didn't usher computing into the mainstream. Up until the ipod, apple has always been a very niche company. He's as popular as he is precisely because he's charismatic and filthy rich. He embodies the "New American Dream" (wealth and fame). That's why we have so much reverence for him. Then we exaggerate his actual impact on the world to square with our inflated reverence.
- Cushman 15y agoThe Macintosh wasn't the first personal computer the same way the iMac wasn't the first all-in-one, or the iPod wasn't the first MP3 player: it wasn't, except for most people, it was. It wasn't anything fundamentally new or special, but it changed everything. As for influence... True, lots of people have been strongly influential. Take Tim Berners-Lee, who invented HTTP, HTML, and the first web browser... On a NeXT, a computer built by one Steve Jobs.