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Because it absolutely IS legitimate development. Apple had the insight to take the printer engine, combine it with a networking interface, and bake in PostScrip
by turnsout 3y ago
Because it absolutely IS legitimate development. Apple had the insight to take the printer engine, combine it with a networking interface, and bake in PostScript. If you have 1/3 or even 2/3 of those, you don't get the desktop publishing revolution.
Most of the time, innovation is combining a few things that exist, but putting them together in an inspired way and nailing the execution. That's the iPhone. It's synthesis.
- masswerk 3y agoThis was really meant as a bit of comedy, but with a grain of seriousness. It was meant to demonstrate that, if you just try hard enough, you can twist the history of about any product in this direction.