This IS the Avid L2: Re: [Avid-L2] Re: RIP Steve Jobs

I always have viewed many of Apple's greatest products (OS X, iProducts,
iTunes, etc) as "convenience" products.
The assembly line, incandescent light bulb, civil right, nuclear bomb are
ideas/inventions that shifts things at the political, social and economic
level for almost everyone in the world. Not just those that can sign a 2
year mobile contract.

Let us not forget Edison had most of the early patents relating to film and
created the Edison Trust (MPPC). So if you are talking about film
(indirectly video), Edison is probably more influential than Apple or Avid.

Dom Q. Silverio

On Thu, Oct 6, 2011 at 5:28 PM, Terence Curren <tcurren@aol.com> wrote:

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> --- In Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com, mike cardeiro <mcardeiro@...> wrote:
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> <<gotta chime in here. The huge contribution the ipod had was not the
> portable music device angle, it was that Apple got the record companies on
> board with selling their product digitally over the net (something they were
> vehemently against beforehand).>>
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> Used to be you heard the song on the radio for free, then you went to
> the record store and bought it. Now you hear it on the radio or internet and
> either steal it or buy it online or buy it at a store.
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> I don't consider a new sales outlet revolutionary on the level of the
> invention of the light bulb.
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> I'm not taking away from Steve Jobs' ability to improve user
> experience, that is what he was great at. But the idea that no one else in
> the 20th century has such an impact on the way we live??
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> What has had more impact on the society and the way we live on this
> planet, anything Apple has done, or the invention of the television?
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> And apart from folks on this list, you would be hard pressed to find
> anyone who could even tell you who invented it.
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> Point being in 30 years no one will know who Steve Jobs was, but kids
> will still be taught about Thomas Edison.
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