Is Apple the greatest tech company in history?
Is Apple the greatest tech company in history?
Leo Myers
Jonathan Phillips
>Is Apple the greatest tech company in history?
No, Microsoft is.
Kayden Morris
their market cap certainly indicates so
Dominic Allen
>Microsoft
lmao
Jason Morales
It's certainly among the greatest ones, it contributed a lot to computing history. Sadly, after Jobs died, it didn't take long for the products to turn into pure shit both in terms of design and quality. I really don't like what they do today, but I love the history of Apple, it's a really interesting story.
Jacob Adams
It's a product first company. Not a tech company. That's one of the reasons they have been so successful.
Liam Evans
t. jew
Joshua Rodriguez
Yes
Starting with early Apple:
>first personal computer with color raster graphics
>the computer that defined the modern graphical desktop metaphor that we've known for the past 35 years (The Alto was a clunky prototype at best)
>thanks to its square-pixel display, created the WYSIWYG desktop publishing industry with the LaserWriter
>created digital video (not analog video superimposed with digital effects like the Amiga)
>created a proto-Web hypermedia framework named HyperCard
>defined the modern laptop form factor with palm rest and pointing device at the front
moving onto NeXT:
>the first object-oriented OS
>defined the "chiseled grey widgets" look of every 90s GUI, mostly notably Windows 9x
>had realtime scrolling and window-dragging ahead of anyone else
>advanced typography and internationalization at the system level
>the first display with over 1 million pixels
>the first graphical IDE with Interface Builder
>literally built for the Internet
>the birthplace of the World Wide Web, Doom, and Quake
then onto Apple Phase II:
>first computers to make a clean break from legacy technology like floppy drives and serial / parallel ports
>first graphical OS with a composited, hardware-accelerated window manager
>defined the glossy, translucent look of every other 00s GUI
>defined the PMP with the iPod, with a hard drive that could hold 1000 songs in your pocket
>the first successful digital retail media store (iTunes)
>brought 802.11 Wi-Fi to the mainstream with AirPort
>forked KHTML to create WebKit, the greatest browser success story outside of Firefox
>first laptops with integrated webcams
>defined the modern smartphone with responsive multitouch gestures, smooth hardware-accelerated graphics, and a real Web browser
>defined the modern app store and created the first mass-market mobile software ecosystem
>defined the contemporary ultracompact laptop form factor
>defined the modern tablet based on iOS
>set the standard for hi-DPI displays with scaled graphics
Asher Mitchell
>is
No. Kill yourself
Matthew Turner
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