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Silver Alicorn
Mar 30, 2008

𝓪 𝓻𝓮𝓭 𝓹𝓪𝓷𝓭𝓪 𝓲𝓼 𝓪 𝓬𝓾𝓻𝓲𝓸𝓾𝓼 𝓼𝓸𝓻𝓽 𝓸𝓯 𝓬𝓻𝓮𝓪𝓽𝓾𝓻𝓮
What if Steve Jobs never existed, and Apple Computer never took off? Would Steve Wozniak have gone to work at Microsoft or maybe Digital Research? would xerox have shipped a computer system

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George
Nov 27, 2004

No love for your made-up things.
everything would be the same as it already is op but with one less biography

echinopsis
Apr 13, 2004

by Fluffdaddy
actually thinks would be very different

Instant Grat
Jul 31, 2009

Just add
NERD RAAAAAAGE
ten years ago we had steve jobs, kevin bacon, and headphone jack

Maximum Leader
Dec 5, 2014
android would still be a blackberry imitation and blackberry would have been relevant. users would be suffering greatly. rip stebe (pbuh)

Chumbawumba4ever97
Dec 31, 2000

by Fluffdaddy

Instant Grat posted:

ten years ago we had steve jobs, kevin bacon, and headphone jack

Sweevo
Nov 8, 2007

i sometimes throw cables away

i mean straight into the bin without spending 10+ years in the box of might-come-in-handy-someday first

im a fucking monster

steve jobs didn't actually accomplish anything notable, so the world would be the same

Agile Vector
May 21, 2007

scrum bored



what if jobs was one of us
just a slobs like one of us

indigi
Jul 20, 2004

how can we not talk about family
when family's all that we got?
ten years ago we had Steve Jobs, Jimmy Noqueers, and Alex Mexicansgoaway,

The Leck
Feb 27, 2001

DONT THREAD ON ME
Oct 1, 2002

by Nyc_Tattoo
Floss Finder
we would all be posting from our zunes


god bless you, Steven

Migishu
Oct 22, 2005

I'll eat your fucking eyeballs if you're not careful

Grimey Drawer

Instant Grat posted:

ten years ago we had steve jobs, kevin bacon, and headphone jack

headphone jack sounds like a really bad Yahoo Serious movie

emoji
Jun 4, 2004
Steve Jobs died in 2011.

Jonny 290
May 5, 2005



[ASK] me about OS/2 Warp
i dunno, op. what if steve jobs never existed? What do you think?

The Management
Jan 2, 2010

sup, bitch?

MALE SHOEGAZE posted:

we would all be posting from our zunes


god bless you, Steven

zunes wouldn't exist because they wouldn't have had ipods to rip off. we would be posting from our desktop posting stations or maybe our 8 pound dell laptop with floppy drive and vga port running DOS 20.1

emoji
Jun 4, 2004
Get a new avatar.

Perplx
Jun 26, 2004


Best viewed on Orgasma Plasma
Lipstick Apathy
we'd all be using windows phones with mandatory styluses with a ctrl-alt-delete button on it

Silver Alicorn
Mar 30, 2008

𝓪 𝓻𝓮𝓭 𝓹𝓪𝓷𝓭𝓪 𝓲𝓼 𝓪 𝓬𝓾𝓻𝓲𝓸𝓾𝓼 𝓼𝓸𝓻𝓽 𝓸𝓯 𝓬𝓻𝓮𝓪𝓽𝓾𝓻𝓮

Jonny 290 posted:

i dunno, op. what if steve jobs never existed? What do you think?

I think the digital revolution would have been delayed and desktop publishing would have been pioneered by, idunno, acorn

GameCube
Nov 21, 2006

what the gently caress. nobody posted "it would be necessary to invent him" yet. well, i'm not going to be the first to post that tired loving joke. somebody else do it.

The Management
Jan 2, 2010

sup, bitch?

emoji posted:

Get a new avatar.

someone cared enough to lovingly fashion this av for me. it would be disrespectful.

indigi
Jul 20, 2004

how can we not talk about family
when family's all that we got?

Perplx posted:

a ctrl-alt-delete button

lol

Silver Alicorn
Mar 30, 2008

𝓪 𝓻𝓮𝓭 𝓹𝓪𝓷𝓭𝓪 𝓲𝓼 𝓪 𝓬𝓾𝓻𝓲𝓸𝓾𝓼 𝓼𝓸𝓻𝓽 𝓸𝓯 𝓬𝓻𝓮𝓪𝓽𝓾𝓻𝓮
an app that simulates a battery pull

krooj
Dec 2, 2006

Sweevo posted:

steve jobs didn't actually accomplish anything notable, so the world would be the same

Origin
Feb 15, 2006

then it would be necessary to create him!

Silver Alicorn
Mar 30, 2008

𝓪 𝓻𝓮𝓭 𝓹𝓪𝓷𝓭𝓪 𝓲𝓼 𝓪 𝓬𝓾𝓻𝓲𝓸𝓾𝓼 𝓼𝓸𝓻𝓽 𝓸𝓯 𝓬𝓻𝓮𝓪𝓽𝓾𝓻𝓮
it would be necessary to create him, op

Endless Mike
Aug 13, 2003



woz would have been a mid-level engineer at hp unceremoniously laid off in the mid-90s.

RISCy Business
Jun 17, 2015

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Fun Shoe


(he wouldn't be the laughing stock of the internet)

qirex
Feb 15, 2001

steve wozniak would have been laid off from hp by carly fiorina and wouldn't have been able to find a job after that because he is too old

poty
Jun 21, 2008

虹はどこで終わるのですか? あなたの魂の中で、または地平線で?

loquacius
Oct 21, 2008

I dunno if we'd have PCs but let me tell you our photocopier software would be loving top-notch

Probably what would actually happen is that Bill Gates would have eventually done some work with Xerox and stolen the idea from them directly instead of stealing it from Jobs who stole it from Xerox

The Management
Jan 2, 2010

sup, bitch?
man, I love listening to WMAs on my creative nomad.

Silver Alicorn
Mar 30, 2008

𝓪 𝓻𝓮𝓭 𝓹𝓪𝓷𝓭𝓪 𝓲𝓼 𝓪 𝓬𝓾𝓻𝓲𝓸𝓾𝓼 𝓼𝓸𝓻𝓽 𝓸𝓯 𝓬𝓻𝓮𝓪𝓽𝓾𝓻𝓮
minidisc would probably be a lot more popular

Stymie
Jan 9, 2001

by LITERALLY AN ADMIN
a person in China would still be alive, never having dared to leak iphone specs ahead of time

carry on then
Jul 10, 2010

by VideoGames

(and can't post for 10 years!)

GameCube posted:

what the gently caress. nobody posted "it would be necessary to invent him" yet. well, i'm not going to be the first to post that tired loving joke. somebody else do it.

i picked the ending to merge with helios too :)

jony ive aces
Jun 14, 2012

designer of the lomarf car


Buglord
came here to post "it would have been necessary to invent him, op"


this is good too

Duscat
Jan 4, 2009
Fun Shoe
if Appel handnt erxisterd it would have been TOTALIARNISM

WE All SAw it int he ad form 1985

Duscat
Jan 4, 2009
Fun Shoe
honestly, it's a butterfly effect

without apple, would personal computers even have been to the point where bill gates could buy and sell a DOS for them?

Duscat
Jan 4, 2009
Fun Shoe
without Hitler, Israel wouldn't exist today

Michael Transactions
Nov 11, 2013

timb cuck

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Silver Alicorn
Mar 30, 2008

𝓪 𝓻𝓮𝓭 𝓹𝓪𝓷𝓭𝓪 𝓲𝓼 𝓪 𝓬𝓾𝓻𝓲𝓸𝓾𝓼 𝓼𝓸𝓻𝓽 𝓸𝓯 𝓬𝓻𝓮𝓪𝓽𝓾𝓻𝓮

Duscat posted:

honestly, it's a butterfly effect

without apple, would personal computers even have been to the point where bill gates could buy and sell a DOS for them?

microsoft would continue to be selling quality Programming Languages such as Microsoft BASIC

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