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Who killed Apple Computer?

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Zombie9920:
http://apple.computerhistory.org/stories/storyReader$72

hm_murdock:
Albert Finney?

Pissed_Macman:

quote:One of the most interesting concepts in Sybil was the treatment of the file system as a database.  You could do various sorts on your files, organizing them into "piles" grouped by subject.  A document could live in several different piles based on its content.  It was a promising way to navigate large quantities of information on a hard drive.  Instead we're still stuck with a folder paradigm designed for use on 400k floppy disks.  (By the way, I hear the next version of Windows will have a database-style file system.)
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Sounds like Apple went ahead with one of their older ideas. How old is that? The copyright says 2003 but the info on that page seems out of date.

Zombie9920:
It says,

This Page was last update: Saturday, September 13, 2003 at 2:17:38 PM

This page was originally posted: 9/2/2003; 10:02:15 AM.

Copyright 2003 Computer History Museum

So it isn't even a month old.

[ September 13, 2003: Message edited by: Viper ]

mushrooomprince:
Apple isn't dead yet.  There not going to die even if they are in a niche market.

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