The origin of the Apple computer ~ Andre Eka Wardara

Entering the decade of 1980, Apple faces competition in the personal computer business. One of the major contenders were IBM, the first leading company in the computer field. IBM's PC DOS operating system and licensed to IBM by Microsoft won a large portion of the market share of desktop computers for large companies is still young. Some smaller companies are using an Apple II, but Apple felt it needed a new, more advanced models to compete in the field of desktop computing for large enterprises. Thus, designers of the Apple III were forced to comply with Jobs that are too high and impossible to fulfill. One of them is to remove the cooling fan - which, he said, according to Steve Jobs is not elegant. The new machines were prone to overheating and some early models had to be pulled from the market. Apple III as very expensive even though Apple is trying to release an improved version in 1983 that also failed in the market. Meanwhile, some groups within Apple also sought to develop new types of personal computers, with advanced technologies such as graphical user interface, mouse, object-oriented programming and networking capabilities. Those people, including Jef Raskin and Bill Atkinson tries to convince Steve Jobs to give full support in developing their ideas. Only after they took Steve Jobs to see the technology developed at Xerox PARC on the Alto in December 1979 then rest assured that the future Steve Jobs will deliver the computer-intensive graphics, icon-friendly and well supported by a team of Apple Macintosh or Apple Lisa they are rivals of each other. Although the idea was to invite disapproval from the PARC research experts, many of which ended up working for Apple as Larry Tesler, Xerox granted Apple engineers to visit PARC facility with the agreement that Apple will sell a million of their shares before the company went public (total price when it ranges U.S. $ 18 million). Lisa debuted in January 1983 at a price of U.S. $ 10,000. Once again, Apple introduced a product that was ahead of its time, but too expensive (this error Apple will continue to be repeated over several years), and once again Apple failed to capture the business market. Apple Lisa was later dismissed in 1986. Lisa released the Macintosh project from Steve Jobs' control of half-finished. Steve Jobs then turned his attention to the Macintosh project, which was originally seen as a kind of a cheaper Lisa. Apple Macintosh was launched in 1984 with a television ad titled 1984 which is based on a novel by George Orwell who also was named in 1984, with the statement, "On January 24, Apple Computer Will introduce Macintosh. And you'll see why 1984 will not be like '1984 '"- the meaning of these words is a new Macintosh computer and information will be freed from the restraints of large corporations and technocrats. Apple has also spawned the concept of Apple (Apple evangelist) which was pioneered by Apple employee named Guy Kawasaki. Despite concerns about the lack of available software, the screen is black and white and the terutup arkitekturnya, Macintosh brand eventually became a successful product for Apple even to this day. Many feel that success is supposed to be much larger than reality. When Bill Gates, Microsoft founder and current leader, visit the Apple headquarters in Cupertino, Steve Jobs showed a prototype of a graphical user interface for the Macintosh. In 1985 Microsoft launched Windows, a graphical user interface of their own for IBM computers. At that time IBM computer system has been reverse engineered and many companies also make computers compatible with IBM. Although Apple gives license to some other products, they never gave permission to other companies to make compatible with Macintosh computer so that Microsoft could dominate an existing market share. At that time, Apple realized that they were too late to reclaim the market power they once had. Macintosh compatible computers sold in the 1990s was only a minor success. Although the first version of Windows very outdated compared to the Macintosh, and computer software is compatible with Windows can be purchased at prices far cheaper than a Macintosh. Additionally, improvements made Micrsoft quickly catch up. As well as because of the openness which is owned by IBM-compatible computers cause more software available for Windows than Macintosh. Microsoft and Windows in the future will be the most phenomenal success stories in the twentieth century, and Apple will not regain his title as the number one maker of personal computers in the world.