“At a Churchill Club event in San Jose, Calif., former PARC engineer Larry Tesler talks about Steve Jobs’ trips to Xerox’s PARC, including the one where Jobs eyed the company’s graphical user interface prototype, which ended up making it into the Mac OS,” Rachel King reports for ZDNet.
“Tesler decided to leave Xerox soon after and started working at Apple,” King reports.
Watch the video via ZDNet here.
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After visiting PARC Steve was seen entering Area 51 and wasn’t seen in Bandley Drive again for another fortnight.
He was caught in an infinite loop…:)
…where he regularly emits a reality distortion field.
The mindless clueless iHaters and trolls are loving it. That little video snippet is so misleading. Now they all think Apple copied XEROX to the tee and out comes the Mac. A copied XEROX PARC OS. LOL Pathetic ZDNET.
@Jubei-
many of us come to the realization that there always people who don’t know something. that’s OK. what’s important is you know.
actually, if you watch the whole video, larry mentions that xerox corporate (bizdev) made am “business arrangement” to give apple open disclosure of technology at PARC. here is a link to the more detailed story:
http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2011/05/16/110516fa_fact_gladwell?currentPage=all
we should all be grateful that xerox made a business error, but it is irrefutably proven that apple did not steal their technology.
people who want to believe apple stole xerox’s technology will not invest the time reading the new yorker article, as most people who like to consider themselves cyber journalists similarly will not. i believe the easy access to superficial information has made our latest generations intellectually lazy. get the information you want to hear and fits your ideology and don’t search for the truth. some of the information is not even factual, but based on opinion or observation. sadly, this is the same with politics as it is with technology.
having had the opportunity to use a xerox 8010 star and smalltalk for years and use the little mac when it was first introduced, i can say first hand the apple was not even close to a copy. menu’s, windowing, desktop management, file management, even mouse design, were all different. The mac was about creation of content. the star was about managing it, with creation just an ugly inconvenience.
this is why people today who cannot get below superficial cues can believe apple copied xerox and not look further. How can you say someone copied a gui when you don’t even know what a gui is?
for 35 years apple has been democratizing computing (not computers). xerox was and microsoft is about putting it into businesses to monetize their investment. apple was about giving the power of computer to you and i. that’s what makes them different then and what makes them different today. that, you can’t copy.
Well said. I have a huge issue with bloggers passing on as journalist. Also sites that call themselves experts in technology yet continue to provide incomplete reporting, yellow journalism or completely incompetent reporting. It’s also unfortunate that todays generation has never had the chance to experience journalist who holds journalistic integrity above all else. Now it’s hit whoaring and who can generate more traffic that’s driving these so called reporters. I hope that WSJ, NYT, New Yorker and NPR will not change to the likes of hiring unprofessional journalist/writers. I fear their time is short though.
Remember Xerox revealed only 1% of what they have to Apple. With the 1% information it was enough for Steve Jobs to realize the import of what Xerox was sitting on. Xerox with 100% of the information still did not know what to do, even when the Macintosh was unveiled to the world. It took Apple many months to sweat out the details, without further input from Xerox, to come out with a world-changing product that shook the incumbent behemoth, IBM to come out with its own PC inferior equivalent. Of course with IBM where nobody will lose his job riding with IBM that the PC was able to capture market share.
I worked for Xerox from 1979 to 2002 as a customer service engineer. I worked on the office products team in at Xerox HQ in Stamford CT. We had a computer internal system that tied printers and routers and network external memory drives using ethernet to tie everything together. I worked on the printers tied to the system. You could print a document by dragging the icon of the document to the printer icon and get a hard copy without opening the program that created the document. Xerox’s problem in this area is told in the book Handlers of Lighting, I believe it was titled. A first hand account of PARC. Our problem is that if it did not make copies or prints Xerox did not know how to market it. That was the biggest problem when I started and when I retired.
“Xerox’s problem in this area is told in the book Handlers of Lighting, I believe it was titled.”
I read a book devoted to that topic called “Fumbling the Future.”