Almost the first coding I learned was one probably not generally known as it was in the printing trade, that was CORA 5. There was one before that but I don’t recall the name now. Then came Apple Macs, many of them over the years, now I have one 27" iMac, two MacBook Pro laptops and an iPhone. In between all that was learning how to build websites / web pages using HTML, before the days of Dreamweaver and similar. I couldn’t believe it when I attended the first day of that course and walked into a room containing Windows machines, not a Mac in sight! That was a steep learning curve but I completed the course. I’ve used Macs now since the early 1980s and have no intention of having anything to do with Microsoft or Windows, that is just not for me!
I can respect that. I am a PC man my self, simply because I can custom order everything from the case on up and put it together myself. It makes repair a walk in the park. As far as windows goes I’m more of a Linux fan. Windows I used until they quit supporting Windows 98. Ever since then it is a resource hog and usually comes filled with junk you will never use. Besides, I blame Apple for Windows. I had an Apple Lisa and the desktop was no different than Windows 3.1.1 reason being Gates stole it.
We live and learn, especially on OFC! I had never heard of the Apple Lisa before, probably as about that time the Apple II came out. I bought one of those as I had just started as a sole trader doing graphic design and handling printing. I certainly knew nothing of how the Apple Lisa came into being as you describe.
Not having heard of that Apple computer I had to check it out, there is some information on the link below, if you are interested that is:
This is the reason I moved away from Apple to go to Windows. Not that I like Windows either, to be honest, but I didn’t like the way Apple don’t seem to play nice with the apps I use. Even now I have a Chromebook, I still can’t use my iphone to do anything but upload photos and charge on it. When I had a Mac, I had to use 3rd party apps to get anything to work, which was counter-intuitive (and dangerous, perhaps?) for the price of it. Plus Apple now have this thing where its more about being trendy, than efficient, in my opinion. Its all I see in coffee shops and movies now…
Plus you can’t have your iPhone repaired locally. Apple uses IMHO dirty tricks to make it where you have to use them. Things like gluing the battery in.
Hmmm…I haven’t had cause to see if this is the case over here yet, Danny…but I have heard that upgrades to an iPhone deplete the battery quite noticeably if there is a new one due out soon! That’s a bit of a coincidence, eh?