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The Legacy of Steve Jobs

Edgy DC Oct 07 2011 01:09 PM

Pausing to remember all the technology that died shortly arrival in the marketplace because Steve Jobs was so good at what he did. Dell DJ, I hardly knew you! A digital audio player that competed perfectly fine with the iPod, but the iPod kept getting smaller, sleeker and the memory kept growing. What the hell, you maniacs? Dell could. not. keep. up. And their product collapsed in a pool of tears. But let's go back and way back. When PCs started popping up in your neighborhood, it was Apple IIe vs. Commodore 64 vs.Atari 800/1600. There were a couple of cheapskate basket cases with Tandys and there was one dolt who bought the Texas Instruments TI-99/4A I was that dolt. TI won a couple of early educational contracts and were planning to get their baby in every schoolhouse. Apple was faster to the education market and better, and blew TI out of the water. Who was left to bother making software that worked on my niche computer? Freaks, that's who. Damn you, Steve Jobs.

Edgy DC Oct 07 2011 04:41 PM Re: The Legacy of Steve Jobs

Somewhere in a landfill in Mississippi is about a milloin and a half Zunes.

Edgy DC Oct 07 2011 05:06 PM Re: The Legacy of Steve Jobs

From a profile of Tim Cook, new Apple CEO. Yet Cook is also known to be extremely detail-oriented and thorough. In a Fortune magazine profile from 2008, a former Apple higher-up recalled an afternoon staff meeting with Cook after a Macworld conference presentation in New York. The employee, Mike Janes, told the magazine that many employees had Mets tickets but were stuck answering questions from Cook for hours. "We were watching the clock like kids in school," Janes told the magazine. "I still have this vision of Tim saying, 'Okay, next page,' as he opened yet another energy bar. Needless to say, we missed the Mets game."

Rockin' Doc Oct 07 2011 07:18 PM Re: The Legacy of Steve Jobs

I still have a 20 GB Dell DJ II that is fully functional and still going strong. It's a little bigger than a deck of playing cards and virtually indestructible as it is made of brushed aluminum. It's far from state of the art, but it work fine and I've received many years of function for my initial investment of $100-$110.

Fman99 Oct 08 2011 06:57 PM Re: The Legacy of Steve Jobs

I had an 80 GB Zune that I enjoyed for quite a while. Then I got an iPhone and had no need for it. Sold the Zune on eBay for $100.