Simon Brown wrote:


"The Natural Philosopher" wrote in message
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On 30/04/15 22:44, Simon Brown wrote:


We aren't discussing solving the world's problems, we
are discussing whether invention still happens today.

Visicalc is a better example for solving some of the world's
problems and is another relatively recent invention.


No we were discussing whether you could do a SERIOUS breakthrough in a
shed.

That was just one of the things being discussed
and Woz did that in a shed/garage.

So far you have come up with trivia - profitable, but still trivia.

VisiCalc and Linux are nothing even remotely like trivia.

And neither were profitable.



Apples achievement was to attract enough finance to enable mass
production of the toy.