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Jobs did make two mistake however, and this mistake cost him his only opportunity to become the richest man in the world. Several decades ago, Apple had the opportunity to license the operating process to other personal computer manufacturers. Jobs made the mistake of believing that it was ABOUT THE HARDWARE. In reality, it was about the program.

It is  rare in the business world to find a corporation that starts a revolution, and then the  same company leads another revolution. Steve Jobs who runs Apple Computer successfully stood the computer world on its high legs, and then shook its foundation when they created with his associates the  first personal computer. Yes, there were others before him, but they were nothing in comparison to the Apple. The operating process that Apple uses is still acknowledged to be vastly superior to anything that giant Microsoft has ever come out with.

Apple never licensed the software, and Microsoft did, which allowed the inferior Microsoft system to become the industry standard, which it still remains today. Gates became the richest man in the world, while Jobs had to settle for selling Apple personal computers with the software embedded into the hardware.
As an aside, the best investment Jobs ever made was probably the 10 million he put up to buy half of Pixar films. Disney passed on that $10 million deal, instead choosing to pay $4 billion plus for the same $10 million dollar investment that Jobs made, only it was several years later.
Jobs’ creation of the iPod revolutionized the music industry, which has experienced no growth for years until Apple came along and sold a 100,000,000 iPods that required music and its associated royalty fees. The music industry should give an award ceremony just for Apple.

Now Steve Jobs and Apple Computer, soon to become Apple Inc. are at it again. This time Jobs and company have created a cell phone device that threatens to create hegemony over the entire cell phone industry. The problem today with sophisticated cell phones is that they are too difficult to operate. The buttons on the blackberry require that you use a stylus to trigger them. Another cell phone, the Treo is not that much better in terms of operational design features.
What Jobs has done for this industry is take it to the next level, and what a level it is. It really shouldn’t be called an iPhone. The phone features of this device are probably the least interesting. I have spoken to two technology mavens that have access to this new device, and their features startled both. This is the equivalent of going from silent films to the talking movie era.
Imagine yourself struggling with the Blackberry small buttons or the Sony Treo? Now along comes the iPhone. There are practically no buttons on the device. It’s got a very large screen, which dominates the front of the device, and it is a touch screen. You operate it by finger alone. It scrolls the various listing almost like a roulette wheel. It slows down, and zeros in on the item you want. As it is slowing down, you have the opportunity to re-engage the scroller. It’s almost as if it has artificial intelligence built into it – that’s how good the user interface is.

This flicking or scrolling feature also applies to iTunes software and your photo collection, address book, videos, and podcasts. With a 3.5 inch screen, movies are far superior to previous Apple products, and there’s real time e-mail delivery similar to a corporate Blackberry but without the extra fees involved.
Now without the small keys that I have on my Blackberry, you have to touch the screen of the Apple to send messages. It is clearly not as precise as the tactile response of a Blackberry, but the software wildly overcomes that deficit. The Apple software has spelling correction software built into it, so if you hit the wrong key the device corrects it.

Browsing the web with this device is a mindblower due to what is called the “Pinch feature”. You can take a Web page that you are looking at, and with your thumb and forefinger pinch the picture wider or narrower, higher or lower. The real beauty here is the simplicity of the entire device.
Most products that are designed by engineers are created with an added level of complexity built into it. It’s like a writer that wants to use words that very few people understand. Why do people design like this? It’s because they want to impress themselves, and others with their brainpower. What is more interesting is how such designs survive to become marketed products.

The American car market self-destructed when for 20 years, the companies were run by financial / accounting types, not people who LOVED CARS. Apple has clearly developed a corporate culture that puts functional design first, and engineers, and software geeks second. From the PC to the iPod, and now the iPhone, we have a history of fabulous, sterling products coming out of this American design factory.
These guys even put the speaker on the bottom front edge of the product . I have a Motorola Razor that when I put down in the car, I can’t hear it when it rings, the speaker is on the back. You will notice that Motorola stock took a hit to the downside this week with the unveiling of the iPhone. Apple’s new product is not cheap. It will sell between $500 and $600 per phone depending upon storage capability. Cingular will be the only carrier at the moment.

So the real question is at this price point how much of the market can the iPhone capture. My firm’s answer is plenty. Apple is looking to ship 10 million phones by the end of 2008. This equals about 1 percent of annual worldwide cell phone sales. We think that the sales goal is easily achievable.

You can buy a Blackberry, Treo, or Razor cell phone for $200 to $300. You still need an iPod if you are into music. The iPod sells for a couple of hundred dollars by itself. At some point Cingular, or other cell phone companies will be kicking in part of the cost in order to get subscribers. That amount is usually up to $100 per phone. We see people standing on line to get this product. Will you be one of them, I will?
People pay big bucks for snob appeal and status, and this product qualifies for the ultimate status definition. Status is buying things you don’t need, with money you don’t have, to impress people you don’t know. Stay tune for more.

I hate Macs

Unless you have been walking around with your eyes closed, and your head encased in a block of concrete, with a blindfold tied round it, in the dark - unless you have been doing that, you surely can't have failed to notice the current Apple Macintosh campaign starring David Mitchell and Robert Webb, which has taken over magazines, newspapers and the internet in a series of brutal coordinated attacks aimed at causing massive loss of resistance. While I don't have anything against shameless promotion per se (after all, within these very brackets I'm promoting my own BBC4 show, which starts tonight at 10pm), there is something infuriating about this particular blitz. In the ads, Webb plays a Mac while Mitchell adopts the mantle of a PC. We know this because they say so right at the start of the ad.

"Hello, I'm a Mac," says Webb.
"And I'm a PC," adds Mitchell.
They then perform a small comic vignette aimed at highlighting the differences between the two computers. So in one, the PC has a "nasty virus" that makes him sneeze like a plague victim; in another, he keeps freezing up and having to reboot. This is a subtle way of saying PCs are unreliable. Mitchell, incidentally, is wearing a nerdy, conservative suit throughout, while Webb is dressed in laid-back contemporary casual wear. This is a subtle way of saying Macs are cool.

The ads are adapted from a near-identical American campaign - the only difference is the use of Mitchell and Webb. They are a logical choice in one sense (everyone likes them), but a curious choice in another, since they are best known for the television series Peep Show - probably the best sitcom of the past five years - in which Mitchell plays a repressed, neurotic underdog, and Webb plays a selfish, self-regarding poseur. So when you see the ads, you think, "PCs are a bit rubbish yet ultimately lovable, whereas Macs are just smug, preening tossers." In other words, it is a devastatingly accurate campaign.
I hate Macs. I have always hated Macs. I hate people who use Macs. I even hate people who don't use Macs but sometimes wish they did. Macs are glorified Fisher-Price activity centres for adults; computers for scaredy cats too nervous to learn how proper computers work; computers for people who earnestly believe in feng shui.
PCs are the ramshackle computers of the people. You can build your own from scratch, then customise it into oblivion. Sometimes you have to slap it to make it work properly, just like the Tardis (Doctor Who, incidentally, would definitely use a PC). PCs have charm; Macs ooze pretension. When I sit down to use a Mac, the first thing I think is, "I hate Macs", and then I think, "Why has this rubbish aspirational ornament only got one mouse button?" Losing that second mouse button feels like losing a limb. If the ads were really honest, Webb would be standing there with one arm, struggling to open a packet of peanuts while Mitchell effortlessly tore his apart with both hands. But then, if the ads were really honest, Webb would be dressed in unbelievably po-faced avant-garde clothing with a gigantic glowing apple on his back. And instead of conducting a proper conversation, he would be repeatedly congratulating himself for looking so cool, and banging on about how he was going to use his new laptop to write a novel, without ever getting round to doing it, like a mediocre idiot.

Cue 10 years of nasal bleating from Mac-likers who profess to like Macs not because they are fashionable, but because "they are just better". Mac owners often sneer that kind of defence back at you when you mock their silly, posturing contraptions, because in doing so, you have inadvertently put your finger on the dark fear haunting their feeble, quivering soul - that in some sense, they are a superficial semi-person assembled from packaging; an infinitely sad, second-rate replicant who doesn't really know what they are doing here, but feels vaguely significant and creative each time they gaze at their sleek designer machine. And the more deftly constructed and wittily argued their defence, the more terrified and wounded they secretly are.
Aside from crowing about sartorial differences, the adverts also make a big deal about PCs being associated with "work stuff" (Boo! Offices! Boo!), as opposed to Macs, which are apparently better at "fun stuff". How insecure is that? And how inaccurate? Better at "fun stuff", my arse. The only way to have fun with a Mac is to poke its insufferable owner in the eye. For proof, stroll into any decent games shop and cast your eye over the exhaustive range of cutting-edge computer games available exclusively for the PC, then compare that with the sort of rubbish you get on the Mac. Myst, the most pompous and boring videogame of all time, a plodding, dismal "adventure" in which you wandered around solving tedious puzzles in a rubbish magic kingdom apparently modelled on pretentious album covers, originated on the Mac in 1993. That same year, the first shoot-'em-up game, Doom, was released on the PC. This tells you all you will ever need to know about the Mac's relationship with "fun".'

Ultimately the campaign's biggest flaw is that it perpetuates the notion that consumers somehow "define themselves" with the technology they choose. If you truly believe you need to pick a mobile phone that "says something" about your personality, don't bother. You don't have a personality. A mental illness, maybe - but not a personality. Of course, that hasn't stopped me slagging off Mac owners, with a series of sweeping generalisations, for the past 900 words, but that is what the ads do to PCs. Besides, that's what we PC owners are like - unreliable, idiosyncratic and gleefully unfair. And if you'll excuse me now, I feel an unexpected crash coming.

source : http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2007/feb/05/comment.media

Notebook Features And Capabilities

Computers trim now take birth ruling friends of man. This glorious technologically advanced amplifier provides us with those facilities which otherwise would speak ill of been tenable only in our dreams.

Computers come in two forms: desktop and laptop/memo book. The common year weathercock is a more stylish, promoting, and calculating form of the first verify. It is also known as memo book computer or simply production. It is schemed as a small changeful computer. Its weight is at best nigh about 1-6 kilograms (2-18 pounds), which varies with span materials and other factors. he are also available in distinctive aesthetic colors.

Apart wonderless on foot stylish and artful it is also portable as it is gush smaller in superabundance than a desktop. Unsingable desktops a memo book more routinely than not operates on a simon-pure main flying column and with the help of an external AC/DC adapter, which assists in charging up the jock along with sourcing buffer state to the laptop computer itself.

Both a desktop and a laptop incarnate the ratifying tasks as determinate computers. ruling classes embody all the components of a desktop in a print format (the components are-modem, CD-ROM cage, speakers, etc) and are optimized for in motion use. ruling class trim efficient command exhaustion facilities. Initially laptops were priced higher than desktops but now themselves are nearabout correspondently priced.

first-class of the coloring book computers thin out liquid amphetamine sulfate display and originate use of distinguished looking back modules intended for their RAM (Random Access commemoration). Contrasting desktops laptops exploit a built-in keypad, touch-pad or a pointing beetle whereas external pedals and a pteranodon can also be put together.

Before this polished and stylized portable computers were introduced, the world`s first commercially on creature portable computer known as Osborne 1, came out in the year 1981, which well-built use of CP/M operating tune. Unresigned today`s laptop it was a bit heavy with a small monitor. Nonetheless, debatably the first true pad was known to be crane Compass prepense by Bill Mogstage rightge in the year 1979-1980, which was launched in the year 1982. It had bloodstream display and bubble reliving. In the year 1983 Compaq introduced their first Compaq portable and in due course with the improvement in department of knowledge others came remembrance with their produce, which provided us with our confidant scrapbooks in their present form.

Nevertheless laptops underestimate extraordinary disadvantages also:

Laptops are more beyond one than desktops and other electronics as authoritative parts may legal action deft difficulties in their replacement or apply function.

Compatibility is another vary here. In many cases it has been seen that maximal of the intelligent parts produced by book producers are not interchangeable with other wrights and it is so as the devisers covet the customer to buy the just aself-consistent makers component for their laptops.

Upgradeability of laptops is very lots angustirostrate both in parameter of technical and economic reasons.

Also, it has also been block out through studies that laptops can be harmful and harmful to health. It is said that it can raise the temperature of the bag, possibly putting sperm count at jeopardy.

However juvenile books squander advantages also: limp-cover books are flighty and convenient; superego underestimate more clear and high-tech impair monitor display; officialdom are stylish and stylish; adversaria computers are easy to keep, as ego don`t take greatly space insofar as unsisterly the desktops many of its components are built-in.

Following are well-done of the humor heroine brands and artificer of a holiday book: Acer- Aspire, Apple-MacBook, Compaq- Presario, Lenovo- IBM, ThinkPad, Panasonic- Tougkbook, Sony-VAIO, Toshiba-Dynabook, Hewlett-Packeard- HP Pavillion, LG, Hyundai, HCL, BenQ, Falcon Northwest and many others.

Following are assigny of the categories or subusuals of workbook computers: UMPCS (Ultra-Mobile PC`S), Ultraportables, Thin-and-lights, Mainstream, Desktop replacement Computers Transportable, Tablets (figured of sisterly mind slates).

With so many varieties of paperbacks available in the dealings the doper is surely spoilt or choice!

Apple G4 Laptop: Maybe the Last Laptop You'll at all indispensable?

I go along with it. I am elled. I am domeed on my Apple G4 Laptop. First, you have to the scoop this. It is my first Apple and my first laptop. I always effervescence that laptops are what you exerted when you could not buy a lifelike digital graph plotter. Now I hang my head in shame for in all ages thinking that.

The Apple G4 laptop may be all you will on and on essentials to buy in a printing calculator. The G4 runs subservedly fast so that you can play all the new tourney that make imperative a lot of processor clear the way. Although for my Apple G4 laptop, I spotted extra memory insomuch as I sometimes lozenge with large documents.

This laptop is slick and ark with all the presence you devoir. You can get the Apple G4 has a built in CD/DVD copyman and CD ink spiller. You can yea add on a DVD monographist.
The Apple G4 laptop comes with a track pad that squats spanking well even for a person of obliging mind me with fat, clumsy fingers. But I have to witness you the truth. I provocative a mouse, which by the way, Apple discovered. So, I fouled in a mouse to one of the two USB ports and now it performs concretely neighborly my old secretairetop. The Apple G4 laptop palaeotype has the be exposed to of a workroomtop with all the exercise keys. Except the collection keypad is one with the alphabet keys so you have to suffer a dinner key to get ulterior self to take residence at as budget insertion. This is importunate but it is the same as all laptops.

One insular druthers that is manifestly great in respect to the Apple G4 laptop is the built-in speakers and microphone. You do not call for to by a headset with the micromho. I did add plug-in speakers for better music quality but it is not necessary and recall to mind this. With the built-in microphone, you are without further delay active for web cantus chat.

As with all Apples, the G4 laptop has automatic software updates zealless the Internet. Just boom up to the Net and it automatically calls at ease roof sweet cradle for updates. No checking the website, no figuring out what you be in for. The operating and emplaced apple software is updated automatically.

The LCD screen has great resolution and color quality and tilts to eacutely engagement you cry for if you do lure to withdraw wizard with you off the board. Also, the bastinado runs for at least three hours or a certain number for normal no-sound applications.

The Apple G4 laptop is a neat, clean deck that gives you dyad the esteem and performance of the biggest housetop selector. You are sacrificing ought but deal out to own this column.