Pixar started out as a side project at Lucasfilms. When bought by Steve Jobs he wanted them to make computers to help with animation, later he helped bring Pixar films and brokerage deals to get them out there and not go Disney's route of making crappy straight to video. Thanks to his company Pixar, Disney and animation as a whole went through a reniassance in the past 15 years.
Again there were others.. it was not "his company".
Quoting the inventor of the WWW Tim Berners-Lee:
"I wrote the program using a NeXT computer. This had the advantage that there were some great tools available -it was a great computing environment in general. In fact, I could do in a couple of months what would take more like a year on other platforms, because on the NeXT, a lot of it was done for me already. There was an application builder to make all the menus as quickly as you could dream them up. there were all the software parts to make a wysiwyg (what you see is what you get - in other words direct manipulation of text on screen as on the printed - or browsed page) word processor. I just had to add hypertext, (by subclassing the Text object)"
Yes, and yet where is it today? What runs the
WWW... NeXT or Linux/Unix/Microsoft? Point is, he might have used a NeXT computer to lay down the ground works of WWW, but it was no soon after they started porting the whole thing over to Unix and later Linux.
At the time, no other computer (other than those in research labs and horribly pieced together) featured a GUI. At the time of Apple Lisa and later Mac was created very few developers had access to develop programs. One of those developers was Microsoft which was developing there first graphical Excel program. While being one of the few developers with direct access to Mac, Microsoft quickly developed and began selling an early version of Windows in Japan--the same year as Mac came out and the rest is history...
And as I said.. Macs did NOT SELL. I dont care how revolutionary the Mac was at the time, but it simply did not sell. Apple and Steve Jobs were their own worst enemy by not allowing 3rd parties to use the OS and not allowing other manufactures of Macs. It doomed the project long before it started simply because Apple was not as popular as Steve Jobs thought it was. Microsoft was the one that not only made an UI based system but also sold it and spread it to 90+% of the worlds PCs. That is an achievement, not being "first".
Apple retail stores are now what the blue print many other companies use for their stores, or redesigned stores--many use the same planners previously hired by Apple (Microsoft, Sony, Disney, Best Buy, Old Navy, Bed Bath & Beyond, Pottery Barn, Abercrombie & Fitch, Macy's)
Talk about being delusional. Do you really expect us to believe the Apple myth that Jobs invented the idea of a company store? Funny.. I remember going into stores of companies back long before Apple even existed.
Recent years, with the all-in-one PC, and has formed what PC companies will and wont put into computers. Apple was the first to get rid of the 3.5 diskette, one of the first to adapt USB, put cameras in monitors, backlit keyboards, most recently with Intel have designed the Thunderbolt I/O and have made the modern ultra-thin notebook something Intel is pushing along with several PC vendors. Not to mention, Apple has formed the modern smartphone and tablet market which someday the majority of people will likely use one or the other over a PC anyways. You misunderstand what Im saying about tablets and phones. RIM is a shell of what it once was. They will never catch up. They are going the way of Palm in 5 years tops. Apple is the reason why. Apple is the reason why Android looks the way it does (originally planned to look similiar to Blackberry), tablets same thing. Bill Gates had a lot of things right; he has even predicted as recently as 2007 that tablets will be the future and guess what? Jobs and Gates ran/run companies that you directly or indirectly depend on so you will come around eventually, as the tech gets better and does neater things it will be more apparent how there are more advantages to them than disadvantages over a pC.
Seriously.. The disc drive was doomed for a long time but was kept in place because of external factors. Most drivers for printers and so on until relatively recently came on... floppy discs. That was one of the main reasons that the floppy disc drive was kept in service for a long time.
Only one selling all in one PCs.. is Apple. Will that change.. maybe, but at the moment they are not popular mostly because of price.
Camera's in monitors.. hmm few monitors have camera's in them.. just saying.
RIM is still huge outside the US. In fact RIM is outselling Apple in India. Like it or not, a lot of people like a physical keyboard on their phone. Can RIM recover to the glory days of owning the smartphone market... no, but they are hardly dead yet.
Wrong again. Apple is the first company to offer USB only for peripheral connections when it was first introduced. Besides the iMac being very popular, first computer anyone offered without a diskette drive, it is what drove Apple out of the brink and also brought on the trend of (love or hate it) companies using translucent colored plastics in their products.
USB 1.0 introduced late 1998... Apple introduce the iMac 1999... so.. DUH! the iMac was probably one of the first new PCs since the introduction.. so big wupti. It does not change the fact that USB did not become popular before it hit the windows PC. And the iMac was not popular HAHAH.. sorry but having so little of the market share means you are unpopular. Apple also tried to kill off USB by promoting Firewire... and how did that exactly go?
Thunderbolt came out this year how can you say it failed already?
Lack of adoption by motherboard manufactures. Cost of the cable (50 bucks for a ****ing meter of cable.. what the hell?). Lack of things that can use Thunderbolt... where are the printers, disc drives and other things... not made by Apple that is..
Thunderbolt was DOA and intel knows it. That is why they are now implementing USB 3.0 in their chipsets.. Even Apple is being forced by user outrage to add USB 3.0 to its products starting next year. USB 3.0 is backward compatible and can be used instantly by people with their old gear and .... big drum roll..... motherboard manufactures and others are actually adapting the standard hand over fist.
Since I can tell you didn't actually know this and just googled something and didn't actually read it I will leave it at that. Also yes, once Jobs came back to Apple several from Apple left to form the Palm division at US Robotics including Palms eventual CEO.
But that is not what you said... you said it was a spin-off from Apple. People leaving Apple to form a new company is not a freaking spin off. You were in error.