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Re:‘Catch Me If You Can’ conman Frank Abagnale Jr. lied abou... by WalterBright on Sunday March 19, 2023 @06:28PM (#35224360)
Without Jobs,

* Woz would have remained an obscure engineer working at HP

* Apple would never have happened

* The Mac would have never existed

* Pixar would have vanished without a trace

* Apple would have gone bankrupt in 1999

* OSX would never have existed

Re:‘Catch Me If You Can’ conman Frank Abagnale Jr. lied abou... by simondotau on Sunday March 19, 2023 @07:40PM (#35225031)
If Jobs didn’t return in 1996—

* Apple would still be wasting its time marketing 420 SKUs of beige Macintosh, along with its panoply of zero-value-add peripherals

* Apple would never have tried to make an iPod, which was, for Apple, an insanely out-of-left-field hobby project driven by Jobs

* Without the iPod, there would be no iTunes Store, which near-single-handedly pulled the music industry into its post-Napster era

* There would be no iPad, a project inspired by Jobs’ personal reaction to a dinner with Gates

* There would be no iPhone, a project spun off from iPad development and fast-tracked for earlier release

* If Apple ever did develop a phone or tablet, it probably would have been based on NewtonOS and fail to crack 1% market share

* Android would have stayed on course to be a competitor to the Blackberry