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fjtorres · 06-01-2010, 05:45 PM

Well, there have always been different philosophies at Apple; the Apple II ethic was Steve Wozniac's, he was the founding hacker, after all. They built the entire company on two hacks: one that let them use floppy drives without a dedicated controller board, the other that let it do sub-pixel addessing on composite video monitors to get a quasi color display out of a single-plane buffer. Both were Woz's work.

Jobs was the marketing and money guy. (Especially money. He is notoriously tight-fisted.)

After Wozniac left, Apple became Jobs all the way. (Signature quote: After hearing somebody had shoehorned a 3.5" Hard Drive in a Mac 128 case; "Impossible! We made sure it wouldn't fit!")

Some companies want you to change you life to fit their product; others let you change their product to fit your life. Which you choose says a lot about the kind of person you are.

(As for getting readers for family members; I'm waiting for the 901 to ship so I can get one for my mother. In the meantime I have her making do with my Kindle.)

06-01-2010, 05:45 PM	#2
fjtorres Grand Sorcerer Posts: 11,732 Karma: 128354696 Join Date: May 2009 Location: 26 kly from Sgr A* Device: T100TA,PW2,PRS-T1,KT,FireHD 8.9,K2, PB360,BeBook One,Axim51v,TC1000	Well, there have always been different philosophies at Apple; the Apple II ethic was Steve Wozniac's, he was the founding hacker, after all. They built the entire company on two hacks: one that let them use floppy drives without a dedicated controller board, the other that let it do sub-pixel addessing on composite video monitors to get a quasi color display out of a single-plane buffer. Both were Woz's work. Jobs was the marketing and money guy. (Especially money. He is notoriously tight-fisted.) After Wozniac left, Apple became Jobs all the way. (Signature quote: After hearing somebody had shoehorned a 3.5" Hard Drive in a Mac 128 case; "Impossible! We made sure it wouldn't fit!") Some companies want you to change you life to fit their product; others let you change their product to fit your life. Which you choose says a lot about the kind of person you are. (As for getting readers for family members; I'm waiting for the 901 to ship so I can get one for my mother. In the meantime I have her making do with my Kindle.)