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Just as Steve Wozniak's invention wouldn't have been anything more than a simple hobbyist's device without Jobs, Neukirchen's creation wouldn't have had even re
by androidb 13y ago
Just as Steve Wozniak's invention wouldn't have been anything more than a simple hobbyist's device without Jobs, Neukirchen's creation wouldn't have had even remotely the same impact without Karp's ideas.
- glurgh 13y agoNot to detract anything from Neukirchen's and Karp's perfectly laudable efforts and achievements but the Woz/Jobs comparisons (including those in Marco Arment's recent blog post) are facile and specious. Woz's design was strikingly cheaper and more capable than anything else on the market and then it was successfully marketed as the first personal computer with wide consumer adoption. In the seven years it's taken Tumblr to exit by acquisition Apple: Developed and launched the first popular consumer personal computer. Developed and launched the first popular consumer personal computer with a GUI. Became highly profitable Offered the biggest IPO in decades It's not the same ballpark or game.
- Uchikoma 13y agoI, For One, Welcome Our New Steve 'Woz' Wozniak Correct Place in History Overlords. And the rumors about me are lies, I'm true to the gospel, he did not only develop a computer like dozens of others did.