Very good article me thinks ...A World Without Apple by Seth Fiegerman Friday, July 22, 2011

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http://finance.yahoo.com/family-home/art...F3b3JsZHdp

by Seth Fiegerman Friday, July 22, 2011

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Ask five random people in a room what they are carrying in their bags at that moment and chances are at least one will pull out an iPhone, iPad or MacBook, or at least a device that looks incredibly similar to one of the above.

Like it or not, Apple (NYSE: AAPL - News) and its visionary CEO Steve Jobs have remade the technology world — and consumer culture as a whole — to their liking. The company's fingerprints are on everything from the look and feel of computers and mobile devices to the way we use cellphones and shop for music.


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"Apple's greatest influence is not that they invent technology," said Tim Bajarin, a technology columnist and principal analyst for Creative Strategies, a tech consulting group. "It's that they reinvent it."

[Black]

By now, it's a given that virtually every household in the country has at least one computer — and probably more than that — but the timeline of computer adoption might have been much different without Apple.

??? I work with people all the time who don't have a computer in the house.

[Jimmypoo]

Black wrote:
By now, it's a given that virtually every household in the country has at least one computer — and probably more than that — but the timeline of computer adoption might have been much different without Apple.

??? I work with people all the time who don't have a computer in the house.

I'd expect that if you work with the homeless.

[Black]

Jimmypoo wrote:
[quote=Black]
By now, it's a given that virtually every household in the country has at least one computer — and probably more than that — but the timeline of computer adoption might have been much different without Apple.

??? I work with people all the time who don't have a computer in the house.

I'd expect that if you work with the homeless.
Occasionally-- but I'm talking about people with homes.

[SDGuy]

Black wrote:
[quote=Jimmypoo]
[quote=Black]
By now, it's a given that virtually every household in the country has at least one computer — and probably more than that — but the timeline of computer adoption might have been much different without Apple.

??? I work with people all the time who don't have a computer in the house.

I'd expect that if you work with the homeless.
Occasionally-- but I'm talking about people with homes.
Senior Citizens don't count :jest: