Re:Jobs and Woz (2011)
by _hardwaregeek on Monday August 19, 2019 @08:53PM
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> I think different
Nice.
> Apple exists because of all the rare events happening early on that where capitalized later.
That's definitely true. I'm not sure if the same early Apple stuff would have happened. But I could see post 90's Apple still happening in some fashion, especially if Jobs was truly able to con(vince) people into giving him funding via the reality distortion field. Jobs would probably have had to work his way up a little slower, but I could see him by the 90's as a kinda cult tech figure, respected enough that he could really work the VC funding circuit.
Re:Jobs and Woz (2011)
by crtlaltdel on Monday August 19, 2019 @09:13PM
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if we are throwing theory around, maybe not having Woz would have caused Jobs to work even harder to make "the thing". maybe apple would have never cut Jobs. maybe OSX would never have been born. maybe Apple was then sold to Oracle after Microsoft released "mPhone Home Edition"...
...why not?
Re:Jobs and Woz (2011)
by _hardwaregeek on Monday August 19, 2019 @09:22PM
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Haha completely fair. This is completely speculative fiction :D
I think different: not saying that I am right but I think in an alternative reality without Woz the time window for building a company like Apple would not exist. Apple exists because of all the rare events happening early on that where capitalized later. We can apply the same thinking to unique companies like Microsoft or Google where even the amazing capabilities of their founders and employees need a rare seed and specific time to be seeded.