Thank you...! it's because I thought I already knew that I didn't read it!
... you're teaching me something. On the other hand, I noted that the essential of "Lisa" (which was the ancestor and will become the Mac 128, 512, 1M, 2M ...), namely the graphical interface, "WYSIWYG", with the icons, and other drop-down menus, etc. were fine from Xerox, on the other hand.
So that's what the river trials of the time were about.
Jobs' trick was mostly to make us believe that the Mac was "different" (campaign "
Think Different "). If it was a little at the beginning, it was not later. We quickly found all the faults of IT:
- "integrated obsolescence" (both software and hardware);
- a captive market (which paradoxically has always been more captive than the world of pécé, and which still is ...)
- The principle of licenses, which means that you never really own anything (since these licenses, both software with the OS, and hardware with the dedicated machines => are subject to conditions). This was less the case at the beginning, since the Mac had been the great promoter of freeware.
- The great paradox is that the OS a) which was free at the start, then became chargeable b) which was generalist at the start, then became dedicated to the machine on which it had to run (and not on the others, however totally similar) etc ...
In short, the Mac was and above all has become a trap for c..s, which paid more for more restrictive equipment, making us believe that the gain would be "ease of use" (relatively hypothetical, since it dealt with certain points, while others were more "locked").
Where it is a little disgusting is that it is on the funds of aficionados who demanded "more freedom" that a more restrictive operating system was built, where you no longer own nothing, and in the near future, even more OF YOUR DATA, with "clouds computing".
It's up to us not to put our finger in this gear (but it will be very difficult to resist ... or even impossible) ... And this, both in the pécé and mac world ...