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The 50 Best Tech Products of All Time (PC World) - SKYLANE - 04-15-2007
Apple (#2) and TiVo (#3) right there at the top, 2 of my favorite devices!
Beginning of article:
http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,130207-page,1/article.html?tk=pr_50besttech
Page mentioning Apple & TiVo:
http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,130207-page,2-c,technology/article.html
Apple products show up many times in the list: iPod, OS X, Mac Plus, Airport Base Station, etc...
Re: The 50 Best Tech Products of All Time (PC World) - GGD - 04-15-2007
Link?
Were the Telephone, Radio, and Television on the list?
Re: The 50 Best Tech Products of All Time (PC World) - M A V I C - 04-15-2007
Unfortunately, hyperlinks did not make the list.
Re: The 50 Best Tech Products of All Time (PC World) - SKYLANE - 04-15-2007
Sorry guys, silly me... I had copied the links and was moving a little fast and forgot to paste them in!!!
Links posted above now...
Re: The 50 Best Tech Products of All Time (PC World) - M A V I C - 04-15-2007
Are they on crack?
Rather, Napster is of critical importance not only for inventing peer-to-peer technology,
and again
and a dramatically improved GUI, which arguably represents the brief and final moment in time that Windows actually looked better than a Mac.
and again
For its first three versions, iTunes was just a nifty way to manage the music on your iPod.
Did they forget that the software was around well before the iPod?
Props to them for mentioning HyperCard though.
Re: The 50 Best Tech Products of All Time (PC World) - Mike Johnson - 04-15-2007
There's never a list like this where intelligent people won't find reason to quibble. But all in all, you have to admit Apple comes out way ahead of MS in that list.
2. Apple II (1977)
6. Apple iPod (2001)
14. Apple Macintosh Plus (1986)
20. Microsoft Windows 95 (1995)
21. Apple iTunes 4 (2003)
30. Apple Mac OS X (2001)
34. Apple Airport Base Station (1999)
41. Apple HyperCard (1987)
49. Microsoft Excel (1985)
and, they even point out that in 85, Excel ran only on macs.
Re: The 50 Best Tech Products of All Time (PC World) - GGD - 04-15-2007
So no worthwhile tech products existed before 1977, then I guess it's really amazing that we got to the moon in 1969.
Re: The 50 Best Tech Products of All Time (PC World) - volcs0 - 04-15-2007
Regarding Netscape, I wonder why they don't mention that Marc Andreessen was doing his NCSA work at University of Illinois... it always reminds me that at the exact same time, I was in the building NEXT DOOR working on my non-CS pre-med degree. I coulda been rich, I tell ya...
Re: The 50 Best Tech Products of All Time (PC World) - Racer X - 04-15-2007
[quote GGD]So no worthwhile tech products existed before 1977, then I guess it's really amazing that we got to the moon in 1969.
who says we did?
Re: The 50 Best Tech Products of All Time (PC World) - jdc - 04-16-2007
the whole list
http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,130207-page,12-c,technology/article.html
if i think i have used or have owned 75% of the stuff on that list, what does that make me?