The PC came out because they wanted a piece of apple's pie.
Steve Jobs was already a well accomplished multimillionaire before IBM came out with their PC.
The Apple computer was also the motivation for IBM to go from mainframes to making PCs.
Back then the PC (IBM) killed them, they were never as mainstream as the PC and always on the brink of failure.
Respect, yes. Like, no.
Synaptics was originally founded as a neural network research company in 1986 by Federico Faggin (co-inventor of the microprocessor) and Carver Mead (VLSI pioneer). The company began to apply semiconductor hardware design techniques to a computing technology known as neural networks.[2]
The company started shipping commercial products in 1995, with its flagship TouchPad interface for notebook PCs. The TouchPad is a touch-sensitive pad for notebooks or keyboards that senses the position of a user’s finger(s) on the surface to provide screen navigation, cursor movement, application control, and a platform for interactive input.
If you can name one person to credit the advent of the Information Age, who would it be?
Steve Jobs is up there, no?
Synaptics ClearPad - The ClearPad was the world's first clear capacitive touchscreen sensor for mobile devices. Synaptics' customer, LG Electronics, was the first to offer a mobile phone using such sensor with the LG Prada (KE850) in December 2006.
I respect what he accomplished but, it's hard to respect a man you didn't know.
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There's very little about Apple and Jobs I like, but you gotta give him credit.
I respect him but I think he was ridiculously OCD.
While it's sad he's dead he made gadgets. He was very good at it, and even better at hyping them. However, people are acting like it's going to destroy their lives now that he's gone. Honestly, would their lives be tangibly worse if they never got their iPod/iPad/Mac/iDoohickey?
There are plenty of people that die each day that saved a large number of people's lives, improved the quality of their lives, or helped give them the freedom to live their lives as they chose. Many of these people pass away without much notice at all. I think it's a sad statement about how much we have consumerism ingrained into our culture that we mourn the death of a maker and promoter of gadgets more than someone that really changed people's lives.
Do I respect him? Not really. He killed off all the charity work Apple did. He did to help keep the company afloat when it didn't have much to live on, that seems fine. But now Apple has never been as profitable. And he never brought any of the charity work Apple did back. A damn shame imo. His biggest rival gave 90% of his money to charity and is still a billonare. But you don't need to give away 90% of your billions to give something back. He didn't give back a measly 1% though. ;/ Even buffet gave to charity for a tax write off. Jobs couldn't be bothered to do that much. What a greedy asshole.
Kudos on getting gigantic profit margins on Ipads on stuff on the backs of sweat shops and child labor though. The working conditions and hours in those shops are so horrid they have to be made in other countries and shipped here as such things would be illegal here in the US. Oh well. All that matters at the end of the day is the almighty profit right? People can go fuck themselves.
Richard Stallman said:Steve Jobs, the pioneer of the computer as a jail made cool, designed to sever fools from their freedom, has died.
As Chicago Mayor Harold Washington said of the corrupt former Mayor Daley, “I’m not glad he’s dead, but I’m glad he’s gone.” Nobody deserves to have to die - not Jobs, not Mr. Bill, not even people guilty of bigger evils than theirs. But we all deserve the end of Jobs’ malign influence on people’s computing.
Unfortunately, that influence continues despite his absence. We can only hope his successors, as they attempt to carry on his legacy, will be less effective.
its really not the job of corporations to do charity. they are doing charity with YOUR money to fluff their name when they do that.
child labor, lol troll