My first response got downvoted so I'm going to try again.
You're completetely wrong. Steve would have simply come up with another solution, or used a different technology. The original Mac wasn't C or Unix based.
And with what logic does it help to post it again with basically no change to the content? You make it sound like downvotes are a calamity of nature and not a deliberate process.
How could it be a deliberate process when people don't have a reason for disagreeing with what I've said, they simply don't like it? How much of my time do I need to keep wasting trying to explain to people why they're wrong? The OP believes something that is simply not true but it's a common misconception on HN. Just because SJ stood on Bell Labs shoulders in this instance, doesn't mean that he wouldn't have found someone else's shoulders to stand on, if Bell Labs hadn't existed. One of the things that Steve was good at was finding other technology on which to build.
People are not necessarily disagreeing with what you said; it's likely that they are disagreeing with how you said it.
By opening a statement with "Wrong. Absolutely wrong" or "You're completely wrong" you are being unnecessarily argumentative and confrontational. That's really not a positive opening for a discussion.
Comments
My first response got downvoted so I'm going to try again.
You're completetely wrong. Steve would have simply come up with another solution, or used a different technology. The original Mac wasn't C or Unix based.
And with what logic does it help to post it again with basically no change to the content? You make it sound like downvotes are a calamity of nature and not a deliberate process.
(The old post for reference: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7304693 )
How could it be a deliberate process when people don't have a reason for disagreeing with what I've said, they simply don't like it? How much of my time do I need to keep wasting trying to explain to people why they're wrong? The OP believes something that is simply not true but it's a common misconception on HN. Just because SJ stood on Bell Labs shoulders in this instance, doesn't mean that he wouldn't have found someone else's shoulders to stand on, if Bell Labs hadn't existed. One of the things that Steve was good at was finding other technology on which to build.
People are not necessarily disagreeing with what you said; it's likely that they are disagreeing with how you said it.
By opening a statement with "Wrong. Absolutely wrong" or "You're completely wrong" you are being unnecessarily argumentative and confrontational. That's really not a positive opening for a discussion.