What if Apple, Inc. NEVER EXISTED?

What if Apple, Inc. NEVER EXISTED? | How much would that change your/our lives? What kind of computers would we be using today? What Operating Systems (OS) would we have available today? What smartphone would you be using? ... etc.

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Can you imagine a world without iPhones, Macs, iPods, iPads, Modbooks, Apple Fanbois & Fangurls, etc.?

world without apple-inc

asked Aug 04 '10 at 14:19

r0bErT4u
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edited Aug 04 '10 at 15:09

I thought I'd revive this question from last year ...

(Oct 08 '11 at 11:30) r0bErT4u

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1	We'd all be surfing the web on our Xerox copy machines ;P answered Aug 05 '10 at 00:23 AlanStryder 2.0k●8●20●42

OS/2 would probably be the main operating system (anyone remember that one?)

answered Aug 05 '10 at 01:51

LukeSBE
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Go back further ... CP/M was so close to being chosen over MS-DOS. If he's didn't blow off IBM's meeting or his wife signed the agreement, Microsoft wouldn't have landed the history making deal with IBM.

(Aug 05 '10 at 10:18) r0bErT4u

What if Tim Paterson had the foresight to keep QDos to himself rather than sell it to Bill Gates? Bill would have had to go back to IBM and admit that he lied in telling them that he had an OS ready for them. Microsoft could have been ruined right there.

(Aug 05 '10 at 12:17) AlanStryder

If Apple inc. never existed we wouldn't know or care, which means in stead of iPhones and iPods we'd all be using Androids and Zune's.. and we wouldn't care, cuz that's all we would have.

answered Aug 05 '10 at 14:37

Caleb Mixson
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Apple, Inc. changed many things. See Granit's post. Namely, NO ADOBE & NO ADOBE PHOTOSHOP

(Aug 05 '10 at 14:46) r0bErT4u

i just don't like the mac os because i like games. i don't use an iphone. i do have an ipod. i think the only change in my life is i will be stuck with a zune.

answered Aug 05 '10 at 14:44

theguy12334567
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Apple, Inc. changed many things. See Granit's post. FYI: The Zune was created to compete against iPods & ZunePass was created to compete against iTunes.

(Aug 05 '10 at 14:55) r0bErT4u

1	If Apple never existed, it wouldn't change our lives at all. That's because our lives would be different... to begin with. answered Aug 05 '10 at 18:42 ronknights 266●1●4●5

1	i think i would cry my little eyes out to be honnest :( like really i would there products are just total sex answered Aug 05 '10 at 18:52 IamBearjew (suspended)

1	Some tech would be different but there would be another company no matter what because Microsoft wouldn't be allowed to have a Monopoly (one business policy of the US gov that I like). answered Aug 05 '10 at 18:54 sulljason 2.4k●110●126●156

1	If Apple didn't exist, there would be something else... answered Aug 07 '10 at 19:11 alexleiphart 1.9k●26●34●55

There would be a lot of cool but underdeveloped technologies

Update

The entire technology industry would be radically different. For example Windows in its current form might not have existed because it was Steve Jobs who saw a new form of computing in what Xerox considered a failed project and what is currently known as the GUI. On top of that the phone industry would not exist in its current form as well. The iPhone raised the bar for phone manufactures and they are still no where close to competing with it (in my opinion). This also raises the question would Android even exist if not for Steve Jobs because Eric Schmidt, the CEO of Google at the time, used Apple's research to, at least partially, fuel Android development.

answered Aug 07 '10 at 19:14

FilipinoPower
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edited Oct 08 '11 at 19:28

If I could thumbs up more, I would. Great Update!!!

(Oct 08 '11 at 21:22) r0bErT4u

I'm sure there could be something that could have succeeded and we would be saying, "What if Pear Inc. never existed?"

It is interesting to think where the MP3 player and cell phone market would be right now. Computers could be a lot worse or a lot better than they are right now.

answered Aug 07 '10 at 22:48

jamesjimmy23
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