9 Oct
2011
9 Oct
'11
9:53 a.m.
On Sat, 8 Oct 2011, Dave McGuire wrote:
On 10/08/2011 08:19 PM, Toby Thain wrote:
Careful Dave. If you disturb his reality distortion field with facts,
he's likely to flip out. :)
g.
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Political correctness is a doctrine, fostered by a delusional, illogical
minority, and rabidly promoted by an unscrupulous mainstream media, which
holds forth the proposition that it is entirely possible to pick up a turd
by the clean end.
Now we're done beating Apple down, we can
talk about what NeXT did that
was ahead of its time. :)
- booted from Apple, Jobs sold all but one Apple share for a $400m
windfall.
- Founded NeXT with $7m and A LOT to prove.
- Spec'd a ridiculous dream workstation: DSP, MO, 12" cube magnesium
chassis, matt black, exotic UNIX, Display PostScript, Objective C,
megapixel display with grey scale (and later, deep colour).
NeXT is therefore a vanity product & its failure in the market was
predictable. Discuss.
The hardware was friggin' FANTASTIC, and the OS was years ahead of its
time. (and has stood the test of time, as the roots of OS X) I'm not sure
it's fair to label something as a "vanity product" just because it was
designed with pie-in-the-sky specs.