Sadly for Xerox, other more nimble companies brought these great ideas to market--the Apple Macintosh, Adobe type fonts, Canon laser printers and 3Com-style local area networks, all of which would appear in the 1980s.
The first TED showcased the brand-new Apple Macintosh and strange round silver shiny discs, the first CDs.
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Later he also said that developing software for the Apple Macintosh computer led Microsoft into graphics-intensive software, setting the stage for Microsoft applications and its breakthrough Windows 95 operating system.
And it works with both Windows-based PCs and Apple Computer 's (nasdaq: AAPL - news - people) Macintosh.
Wozniak said that Apple's market-changing products - from the Macintosh computers, through to the iPod, iPhone and iPad - were down to Jobs' instinctive feel for what people wanted from technology.
Wozniak is a consultant on that movie, which will play out in three extended scenes, shot in real time, that depict Jobs at three product rollouts: the Macintosh, Jobs' non-Apple product NeXT, and the iPod.
Mr Jobs co-founded Apple in the 1970s with Steve Wozniak, and its Macintosh computers became hugely popular in the 1980s.
"And fortunately this isn't one of them, " quipped Jobs, addressing a crowd of European Macintosh-faithful on the first day of the Apple Expo trade show held annually in Paris.
Canon touts both the favor its video recorders have found with Apple Computer (nasdaq: AAPL - news - people ) Macintosh users and its strategic partnerships with Microsoft (nasdaq: MSFT - news - people ).
She's a dedicated Apple Computer aapl (nasdaq: aapl - news - people) Macintosh user who just bought her first handheld, a Handspring hand (nasdaq: hand - news - people) Visor.
The dual-core Power6 chip boasts a top speed of 4.7 gigahertz, double that of IBM's previous Power5 and represents a next generation processor to the PowerPC, the chip that was previously used in Apple (nasdaq: AAPL - news - people )'s Macintosh computers.
When sharing broadband, it supports both PCs and Apple Computer 's (nasdaq: AAPL - news - people) Macintosh.
It will not support Apple Computer 's (nasdaq: AAPL - news - people ) Macintosh computers, at least not at first.
Could these be combined to bring us closer to the kind of natural, predictive experience of Apple's nearly decade-old Knowledge Navigator video than its 22 year-old Macintosh?
The other thing we have to ding Tapwave on is lack of support for Apple Computer 's (nasdaq: AAPL - news - people ) Macintosh line.
It will also work with most of Apple Computer 's (nasdaq: AAPL - news - people) Macintosh computers, as long as they're running a version of the operating system that is 8.0 or higher, but not the upcoming Mac OS X, at least not yet.
Strong sales of Macintosh computers sent Apple's quarterly earnings up 26.1% over the year-ago period, Apple reported Tuesday.
And, two decades ago, that was certainly the case when Apple paired up a quirky all-in-one computer with a breakthrough graphical user interface for the original Macintosh computer, introduced in 1984.
For Apple, the move into smartphones was the next step in its shift to consumer-electronics juggernaut from maker of Macintosh computers.
They took the VCs' money and ran: The graphical user interface went to Apple and appeared in the Lisa and the Macintosh, ethernet went to the startup 3Com, and the digital-printing language was snapped up by Adobe Systems.
The service is as yet only available to users of Apple's Macintosh computers, but should debut for users of Microsoft 's (nasdaq: MSFT - news - people ) Windows platform before the end of the year.
Inside the store, Apple employees put an iPa- shaped display in the store window, as others helped customers who came to shop for Macintosh computers and iPod music players.
Despite these successes, three decades after its founding and 22 years after it introduced the Macintosh, Apple remains the underdog in a personal computer world dominated by Microsoft (nasdaq: MSFT - news - people ).
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