Re: Apple II: Second Best Tech Product of All Time!

[Tristan Mumford <xtristan.xmumford@xgmail.xcom>]

mmphosis wrote:

> PC World's Second Best Tech Product of All Time: Apple II
> 
> http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,130207-page,2-c,technology/article.html
> 
> I found this on slashdot.org ...
> 
> http://hardware.slashdot.org/hardware/07/04/03/0225236.shtml
> 
> "PC World picks the 50 best tech products of all time. Apple holds
> down seven places in the list, Microsoft two, and open source software
> (Red Hat Linux) one. The top five, according to PC World, are:

Are they serious? Even given the assumption that they are talking about
computer related products in the last 30 years...

> Netscape Navigator (1994),

If they want to look at connectivity why not the MODEM, The IP stack,
ARPANet, Mosaic etc etc.

> Apple II (1977),

Not arguing.

> TiVo HDR110 (1999),

I barely even know what a TiVo is. The only way I know at all is from stale
US TV shows that have oozed over here slowly.
Was it really so influential?

> 
> Napster (1999),

This list is silly.

> and Lotus 1-2-3 for DOS (1983)." 

VisiCalc!



Was the article written by a 13 year old?

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