Anyone Who Thinks Apple Will Rule The World Forever Should Look At This Picture

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 Anyone Who Thinks Apple Will Rule The World Forever Should Look At This Picture Henry Blodget | Mar. 31, 2013, 4:25 PM | 22,064 | 42 inShare41 Email More Know what this is?   Henry Blodget / Business Insider   It's one of the first mass-produced mini-computers--the PDP 8.  The PDP-8 was made by Digital Equipment Corporation in 1965. It cost $18,000. It was much less powerful and vastly harder to use than a cheap smartphone is today. The PDP-8 and similar machines made Digital Equipment Corporation the leader in the mini-computer revolution. Mini-computers provided a vast price-performance-and-usage improvement over mainframes, so they quickly took over the corporate computing world. Digital Equipment Corporation, meanwhile, became one of the world's most dominant technology companies. For two decades, the company's stock soared. Nothing would ever stop Digital Equipment Corporation. When the personal computer appeared, DEC's founder famously ridiculed it. No one, Ken Olsen said, would ever want a computer in their home. You know what happened next. A couple of decades later, in the late 1990s, Compaq bought what was left of DEC. Then Compaq itself collapsed and was acquired by HP. Some remnants of DEC still exist within HP, which is itself now collapsing. Microsoft, the company that rode the wave that supplanted mini-computers, is now, if not collapsing, struggling. (Ironically, after a couple of decades of challenges, the company that led the pre-mini-computer mainframe wave, IBM, has completely retooled itself and is now back to being dominant.) This PDP-8 above, meanwhile, is now in the London Science museum. The moral of the story? Technology changes fast. Today's world-beater is often tomorrow's Digital Equipment Corporation. The companies that lead one wave rarely go on to lead the next.

bittertruth · Mar 31, 2013 7:31 PM · 12,442 views

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Well, We all know that. Don't we? Nothing is forever my friend.  or is it? its not just the techonlogy, everything changes overtime and will get better. 

meroghar124 · Mar 31, 2013 7:41 PM

Absolutely, thats my point.

bittertruth · Mar 31, 2013 8:26 PM

 Does that apply to Google, Android operating system and Samsung too? They are also on the top along with apple these days.

rahashya · Mar 31, 2013 9:25 PM

There were some apple Die hard fans. Where are they lol

facebook · Mar 31, 2013 9:46 PM

hehehe...Apple will not rule forever but surely they will rule for a while. :)

freedom2012 · Apr 1, 2013 1:08 AM

 The only company that has stayed on top through out the past hundreds of years is God's company. Like the Church, Temple, Mosque, monastery  etc etc lol !! They have been in business since their inception and are still in Bidness today, & are still number 1 in their own religious field. lol !!

BathroomCoffee · Apr 1, 2013 10:37 AM

No one can really predict anythng on this time changing phase.Apple once was struglling company and now it has most ppl desired brand in the world But you cant always expect same thing forever.People are not following Apple because it has a logo familiar to everyone its because they are so far able to meet costumer needs.We are the one to rule the tech world not the products. If they keep giving what we need yes they will definately rule the world but again another company might gives what apple has not given yet and what cosumer really needs. So tech company is always struggling no matter how many products they lunch or sell.

mikel · Apr 1, 2013 5:06 PM

 Just to reiterate BC's point: Total Global Revenue of Apple in 2012: $157 Billion Total Revenue of Catholic Church in US alone in 2010: $170Billion  http://www.slate.com/blogs/mon...

snurp · Apr 1, 2013 6:48 PM

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