User 50569

Apple's Interesting Challenge with Its Best Buy Deal

I have been a purchaser of Apple products since 1984. I was willing to step out on a limb and purchase the first Mac ever and a printer after my Kaypro computer left me hanging. What I liked about Apple was the fact that they were not followers but were the leaders. It is just that most people did not recognize it at the time. What were new items to the "American lexon" were words such as "desktop, icons and WYSIWYG."
The fact that the computer and printer cost double what other computers cost was not a factor in my purchasing decision. What was a major factor was that one could print exactly what one wanted too the first time without a considerable amount of trial and error and the added fact that numerous fonts were a part of the package was an additional benefit.
I have the latest Apple gadget which is the iTouch and I can't believe how much I depend on it but I have discovered one problem and I am not sure if it is with the Touch or with Seeking Alpha. When I access Seeking Alpha on the the Touch through the wireless internet I cannot access all of the features Seeking Alpha has to offer such as: Investment Ideas, US Market, Global Markets, ETF's, Sector, etc.
The other feature that sets Apple apart from other companies besides inovation is there absolute adherence to using their programming language. I have some knowledge of early programming courtesy of the USN and what I learned is when you turn on any computer it has to go through a "bootstrap" procedure and it checks its circuits to make sure everything is ready to respond. It sets the pointer at octal 001 (machine code) and asks the operator to push the start button to begin. In the case of the Kaypro it showed a small blinking arrow which I believe was the command line asking the operator to begin making entries. This blinking arrow was common among most computers whether they were IBM PC's or the Commodore computers.
The Apple program chose not to follow this approach and mapped every pixel on the computers screen and it had something no other computer had which was a "mouse." All the PC users laughed at us (Applefiles) because we did not have a command line with our computers we had to do something called point and click.
I remember one of the famous guru's of computerdom telling everyone that the Apple computer would fail because of this childish feature. Funny how predictions can be so wrong. It just takes some people longer to discover the "light" even when it is right in their face.
I remember the first BMUG (Boston Mac Users Group) where I was able to listen to two men speak. One was Bill Gates the other was Steve Jobs. It was quite obvious to me which of the two was the innovator. I ask anyone reading this comment to follow the innovators. They might not always be right but they certainly are not part of the flock. Chow GW.