vscd said:
ccardona54 said:
jebrady03 said:
Is this a first in DSLR's? Or a "first"... like how Apple claims to have invented everything?
Apple DID invent everything: a usable computer, usable printer (Postscript), usable music player, usable internet-in-your-pocket device, usable tablet, usable Dick Tracy watch, usable music/movie downloads. OK, they're working on usable cloud-synching, you got me there!
You know the difference between inventing and making something usable, based on existing inventions?
No, he doesn't have any idea at all. Apple didn't even invent the first commercially successful home computer.
1. The first commercially available POCKET MP3 player was invented by a Korean company. (1997 by Saehan Information Systems, which sold its “MPMan” player in Asia in spring 1998)
2. First in your pocket internet connectable cell phone was a Nokia.
3. Dick Tracy used a watch/radio. The closest thing to that is a watch/cellphone. A cell phone is a radio. In 1999, Samsung launched the world's first watch phone, the SPH-WP10. It had a protruding antenna, a monochrome LCD screen, and a 90-minutes of talk time with an integrated speaker and microphone.
In 1998, Steve Mann invented, designed, and built the world's first Linux wristwatch, which he presented at IEEE ISSCC2000, 2000 February 7, where he was named "the father of wearable computing".
The famous Timex Datalink, a so-called wristwatch, product line was introduced in 1994. The early Timex Datalink Smartwatches realized a wireless data transfer mode to communicate with a PC. Appointments and contacts created with Microsoft Schedule+, the predecessor of MS Outlook, could be easily transmitted to the watch via a screen blinking light protocol.
4. Apple did not invent the first usable music and movie downloads.
5. Microsoft launched the first tablet PC in 2002. There was no iPad until 2010, but there were many tablets before either of these.
6. There are all kinds of cloud syncing services.
7. Cell phones have been around since 1973. On 3 April 1973, Martin Cooper, a Motorola researcher and executive, made the first mobile telephone call from handheld subscriber equipment, placing a call to Dr. Joel S. Engel of Bell Labs.
Apple didn't enter the cellphone market until 2007!
8. Apple did NOT invent the Postscript. Postscript is a computer language for creating vector graphics. It is a dynamically typed, concatenative programming language and was created at Adobe Systems by John Warnock, Charles Geschke, Doug Brotz, Ed Taft and Bill Paxton from 1982 to 1984. Apple's did launch the first Postscript compatible printer (LaserWriter), but did not invent Postscript.
9. Apple DID NOT invent the first commercially successful home computer. That trophy goes to the the Altair 8800,a microcomputer designed in 1974 by MITS and based on the Intel 8080 CPU. Interest grew quickly after it was featured on the cover of the January 1975 issue (published in late November 1974) of Popular Electronics, and was sold by mail order through advertisements there, in Radio-Electronics, and in other hobbyist magazines. The designers hoped to sell a few hundred build-it-yourself kits to hobbyists, and were surprised when they sold thousands in the first month. The Altair also appealed to individuals and businesses that just wanted a computer and purchased the assembled version. The Altair is widely recognized as the spark that ignited the microcomputer revolution as the first commercially successful personal computer.
The Apple 1 was launched in 1976 and only sold about 20 units in the first 9 or 10 months. Only 200 of these units were ever built.
He has no idea what usable means and no sense of tech history.
So no on all of the above. Everything in the list was invented and very usable before Apple got its hands on it. Heck, sonny, printers were around decades before Apple. Same with computers.
If you mean "usable" , when it comes to computers, to mean an easy operating system like Windows or MAC OS.. maybe you are right. Don't have to know a single DOS command.
BTW: Apple didn't invent the first operating system either. I started out with DOS (Disk Operating System). I don't know what came before that. All Microsoft and Apple did was make it possible for any idiot to operate a computer. Couple that with Plug and Play and a person doesn't have to have any idea how the thing works to use it. Even software installs itself.
His post is unusable. :
*Most details of what I posted were revealed in Google searches and not through personal intimate knowledge. However, I am old enough to know the entire "Apple invented everything remark was just absolutely false, and that Apple didn't invent first usable anything.* I watched many of these technological leaps come to life by reading magazines like Popular Electronics, etc. as a young man. Can anyone imagine actually reading?
On the topic: I would like to see back lit buttons.
