The 50 Best Tech Products of All Time (PC World)

[SKYLANE]

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...50besttech

Page mentioning Apple & TiVo:
http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,130207...ticle.html


Apple products show up many times in the list: iPod, OS X, Mac Plus, Airport Base Station, etc...

[GGD]

Link?

Were the Telephone, Radio, and Television on the list?

[M A V I C]

Unfortunately, hyperlinks did not make the list.

[SKYLANE]

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...

[M A V I C]

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.

[Mike Johnson]

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.

[GGD]

So no worthwhile tech products existed before 1977, then I guess it's really amazing that we got to the moon in 1969.

[volcs0]

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...

[Racer X]

[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?

[jdc]

the whole list

http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,130207...ticle.html

if i think i have used or have owned 75% of the stuff on that list, what does that make me?