On Saturday 17 June 2006 03:36 pm, Philip Tellis wrote:
Sometime Today, j cobbled together some glyphs to say:
taking gui to the masses. .. making things simpler that what they would have been
Apple did that
No they didn't. Apple took gui to the rich and l33t, not to the masses where it really mattered.
At that point they were the "masses" - middle level professional earning USD35000++.
make computing more affordable and relilable ... to make lif e a lot more easir by improving the interfaces to computers an making them more useful to common man without putting any efforts in learning...
All of which would have been a lot cheaper and easier and reliable had it not been for the aforementioned Billybaba and his cohorts' methods.
I doubt it. The cost of computing was heading up when Microsoft entered the market.
U mean branded stuff. Clones were about 40% cheaper at HK. Cheaper if u assembled the stuff. And falling by the day. The clones then controlled 70% of world market. U had a whole slew of companies and apps Lotus, Ashton Tate, Word perfect, Wordstar - can't remember the C compiler vendor was it Waite. The deliberate intoduction of M$isms with malafide intent is documented in court. Most app makers died or were too weakened to compete in the app space. Thus styming innovation, and raising direct and indirect cost in the Computer industry.