Apple TV, Apple TV, Apple TV, and Apple TV+

Re:Apple TV, Apple TV, Apple TV, and Apple TV+ by etaioinshrdlu on Sunday November 03, 2019 @10:05PM (#21438680)

Even Sun Microsystems had a phase where they made thought-terminating illogical statements. My 2 favorites: "The network is the computer" - No, it's not, and Sun's tech at the time, just Unix servers, definitely did not have any enlightened concept of networking that others lacked. It had Berkeley sockets and NFS. Such a statement makes me think of single-system image cluster computing, or other cool stuff, but they didn't have it! Lame.

"We put the dot in dot-com" - ??? - I think they got scared that they were starting to lose relevancy in the internet age. It turned out that Sun hardware was a poor choice if you really wanted to scale.

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Re:Apple TV, Apple TV, Apple TV, and Apple TV+ by DonHopkins on Monday November 04, 2019 @02:11AM (#21439545)

Sun: "We put the dot into dot-com!"

Microsoft: "Oh yeah? Well we put the COM into dot-com. Pthththth!"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Component_Object_Model

IBM: ”When they put the dot into dot-com, they forgot how they were going to connect the dots. Badoom psssh!”

https://www.itbusiness.ca/news/ibm-brings-on-demand-computin...

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Re:Apple TV, Apple TV, Apple TV, and Apple TV+ by dottrap on Sunday November 03, 2019 @11:02PM (#21438937)

> "We put the dot in dot-com" - ???

Yes, it's marketing fluff (as with any marketing), but I liked that one.

For all you tech people like me that have problems answering to non-techie family members what you do, I thought that was an example of a beautiful succinct answer that still conveyed enough of an idea to be satisfying to laymen.

As for one I really hated from Sun: "Java Desktop System", which was just a distro with GNOME, and had nothing to do with Java.

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Re:Apple TV, Apple TV, Apple TV, and Apple TV+ by bch on Sunday November 03, 2019 @11:29PM (#21439053)

Wasn’t that implying their infra running the implicit “.” at the end of “.com” (I know, it’s literally not what the copy says)? I.e. the internet .com resolving depended on Sun.[0][1]

[0] https://serverfault.com/questions/134611/why-no-final-dot-fo...

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Root_name_server

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Re:Apple TV, Apple TV, Apple TV, and Apple TV+ by thaumasiotes on Monday November 04, 2019 @07:22AM (#21440943)

I like the idea that their slogan was really "we put the second dot in dot-com-dot".

"You know, the one you've never heard of."

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Re:Apple TV, Apple TV, Apple TV, and Apple TV+ by etaioinshrdlu on Sunday November 03, 2019 @11:11PM (#21438981)

Yesss... The name Java Desktop System made my soul hurt. The funny thing though is it was an okay GUI environment. Conservative and thoughtful. It was 10 years late to the GUI party though :)

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Re:Apple TV, Apple TV, Apple TV, and Apple TV+ by pram on Sunday November 03, 2019 @10:48PM (#21438875)

“The network is the computer” is truer today than it’s ever been though.

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Re:Apple TV, Apple TV, Apple TV, and Apple TV+ by DonHopkins on Monday November 04, 2019 @02:16AM (#21439561)

"The door is a jar."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lkmoQvbMRFk

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Re:Apple TV, Apple TV, Apple TV, and Apple TV+ by randomidiot123 on Sunday November 03, 2019 @10:58PM (#21438911)

It's as gibberish today as it's always been.

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Re:Apple TV, Apple TV, Apple TV, and Apple TV+ by mc3 on Sunday November 03, 2019 @10:50PM (#21438880)

I remember the dot in dot-com ads. I was thinking of starting a blog titled: "I put the dot in dotnet"

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