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In Ross Perot's defense (I know...) there's an argument that without him we wouldn't have the iPhone. He provided NeXT with some critical funding at a time when
by gdubs 3y ago
In Ross Perot's defense (I know...) there's an argument that without him we wouldn't have the iPhone. He provided NeXT with some critical funding at a time when their technology was still outside the computing mainstream. Without NeXT, no MacOS X. No OS X, no iOS.
- BoxFour 3y agoIn the author's defense, he specifically points out that he's not debating Perot's platform or accolades. It's about the fixation on "gets things done" without seeming to care about what it is that gets done.
- gdubs 3y agoYea but this is Hacker News and it was an opportunity to bring up an interesting and relevant tidbit that people might not have heard about before.