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Re: oops... Andy Warhol was right
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>> 4) John Sculley whining that Microsoft "stole" "Apple's" look and
>> feel, an hour after we were informed that, of course, "Apple's" look
>> and feel came from Xerox PARC. A journalist woould have noticed the
>> irony; sadly there was no journalist involved with the broadcast.
>
>My take on the arrangement of the bits --- first Xerox PARC and then Scully
whining about look & feel --- was that it showed a delightful sense of dry
irony. To have a narrator pointing out what the arrangement made obvious
would have sweetened things into sugary cloyity.
- From an Apple disciple's POV, it was hilarious how Cringely interposed
himself with a clip of the launch of Win '95, accurately pointing out how
the concepts touted as "new" and "revolutionary" by Bill & Co. were already
10 years in the marketplace (ala Macintosh), and over 20 (fifty, if you
count the original office machine concept, which also had a desktop,
document windows, etc.) in the conceptual makings.
He did make a good point though - Microsoft has been sucessful because it
has been ruthless, and fast to take advantage of opportunities, not because
it necessarily makes a better product.
(I sat through the whole thing and yes, ARDI was only mentioned once, as a
caption for Mat. Oh well.)
TC
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