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This is like saying 'Apple didn't revolutionize tablets - Microsoft did'. It's pretty ignorant to keep attacking Apple for not 'inventing' every aspect of ever
by gibwell 13y ago
This is like saying 'Apple didn't revolutionize tablets - Microsoft did'.
It's pretty ignorant to keep attacking Apple for not 'inventing' every aspect of every technology they use. That simply is not how the industry works for any company.
When Apple 'revolutionizes' something they do so by understanding how a particular technology can be applied to deliver value to users. Period.
This same logic applies to Google. It's hard to dispute that they 'revolutionized' search, and yet they did not invent crawlers, minimal search interfaces, or even using backlinks to rank pages. What they did was to combine these things into a brilliantly engineered solution.
This is yet another linkbait semantic argument that gains attention only because it attacks Apple.
- haberman 13y agoDid you even read the article? The fact that you are speaking in generalizations strongly suggests that you did not. Steve Jobs made some very specific claims, the article debunks them in great detail.
- rmrfrmrf 13y agoHave you ever worked with C-level executives before? They frequently speak in soundbites like this because they have to have a 30,000 ft. view over their company while at the same time picking out highlights that can be used in interviews like this. What's really notable is how much shit Steve Jobs gets for completely off-the-cuff comments like this (I mean, we're talking about oscilloscopes here), yet no one bothers to mention the fact that here we have a CEO giving credit to one of his employees by name. Does the CEO of your company even know your name? When's the last time a CEO has given anyone else recognition in an interview?
- kens 13y agoRod Holt (who developed the Apple II power supply) was Apple employee #5 and the VP of engineering. So of course Steve Jobs knew who he was.
- haberman 13y agoIf I was that engineer it would make me very uncomfortable to have a public figure overstate my accomplishments. Especially since part of the claim is that all current designs "rip off" this one (which isn't actually true) and that history book authors unjustly fail to acknowledge this.
- nawitus 13y ago>It's pretty ignorant to keep attacking Apple for not 'inventing' every aspect of every technology they use. The article doesn't attack Apple for not inventing every aspect of every technology they use. In fact, it doesn't even seem like you read the article. The article attacks a specific claim made by Steve Jobs.
- gibwell 13y agoThe article also also makes a general attack, as well as the specific one.