Robert X Cringely Concepts

The Decline and Fall of IBM: End of an American Icon?

by Robert X. Cringely · 1 Jun 2014 · 232pp · 71,024 words

THE DECLINE AND FALL OF IBM End of an American Icon? by Robert X. Cringely THE DECLINE AND FALL OF IBM End of an American Icon? Copyright © 2014 by Robert X. Cringely All rights reserved. Certain portions of this book appeared originally on www.pbs.org and are the property of the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS). Used

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competition is not a lot different either so what is a hapless customer to do! nobodyimportant / August 27, 2013 / 4:50 am ABOUT THE AUTHOR Robert X. Cringely has been a Silicon Valley journalist and character for more than 30 years. An early employee of iconic companies including Apple and Adobe Systems, Cringely

Gambling Man

by Lionel Barber · 3 Oct 2024 · 424pp · 123,730 words

margins. These were the skills Masa needed to succeed with his high-risk broadband venture. Yanai first contacted Masa in 1994 after reading Accidental Empires, Robert X. Cringely’s book on Silicon Valley and the rise of the personal-computer revolution. Seven years senior to Masa, he knew little about computers, but he

Digital Wars: Apple, Google, Microsoft and the Battle for the Internet

by Charles Arthur · 3 Mar 2012 · 390pp · 114,538 words

did Gates think of the threat from Cupertino? Speaking in June 1998 to another journalist, Mark Stephens (who writes under the more arresting moniker of Robert X Cringely), he grew ruminative. ‘What I can’t figure out is why he is even trying,’ Gates said to Stephens. ‘He knows he can’t win

Steve Jobs

by Walter Isaacson · 23 Oct 2011 · 915pp · 232,883 words

Alexander. Fumbling the Future. Morrow, 1988. Stross, Randall. Steve Jobs and the NeXT Big Thing. Atheneum, 1993. “Triumph of the Nerds,” PBS Television, hosted by Robert X. Cringely, June 1996. Wozniak, Steve, with Gina Smith. iWoz. Norton, 2006. Young, Jeffrey. Steve Jobs. Scott, Foresman, 1988. ———, and William Simon. iCon. John Wiley, 2005. NOTES

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; Steve Jobs, “Thoughts on Flash,” Apple.com, Apr. 29, 2010; Walt Mossberg and Kara Swisher, Steve Jobs interview, All Things Digital conference, June 1, 2010; Robert X. Cringely (pseudonym), “Steve Jobs: Savior or Tyrant?” InfoWorld, Apr. 21, 2010; Ryan Tate, “Steve Jobs Offers World ‘Freedom from Porn,’” Valleywag, May 15, 2010; JR Raphael

The Inmates Are Running the Asylum

by Alan Cooper · 24 Feb 2004 · 193pp · 98,671 words

Basche, Chris Bauer, Jeff Bezos, Alice Blair, Michel Bourque, Po Bronson, Steve Calde, David Carlick, Jeff Carlick, Carol Christie, Clay Collier, Kendall Cosby, Dan Crane, Robert X. Cringely, Troy Daniels, Lisa Powers, Philip Englehardt, Karen Evensen, Ridgely Evers, Royal Farros, Pat Fleck, David Fore, Ed Forman, Ed Fredkin, Jean-Louis Gassee, Jim Gay

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be fun unless facts were hidden, processes were obscured, and goals were unclear. Most good software engineers are at a disadvantage in the politeness realm. Robert X. Cringely says that programmers …are expressive and precise in the extreme but only when they feel like it. They look the way they do as a

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a nerd Mike when he calls himself Michael and he likely won't answer, since you couldn't possibly be referring to him.[5] [5] Robert X. Cringely, Accidental Empires, How the Boys of Silicon Valley Make Their Millions, Battle Foreign Competition, and Still Can't Get a Date, Addison-Wesley, 1992, ISBN

Visual Thinking: The Hidden Gifts of People Who Think in Pictures, Patterns, and Abstractions

by Temple Grandin, Ph.d. · 11 Oct 2022

capable of tapping into a huge infrastructure, Jobs and Wozniak built their own blue box in three weeks. In a 1995 interview with documentary filmmaker Robert X. Cringely, Jobs said, “I don’t think there would have ever been an Apple Computer if there had not been blue boxing.” Like Gates, Jobs dropped

Joel on Software

by Joel Spolsky · 1 Aug 2004 · 370pp · 105,085 words

. So don't be so quick to write them off. In the early 1990s everyone thought IBM was completely over: mainframes were history! Back then, Robert X. Cringely predicted that the era of the mainframe would end on January 1, 2000, when all the applications written in COBOL would seize up, and rather

Creative Selection: Inside Apple's Design Process During the Golden Age of Steve Jobs

by Ken Kocienda · 3 Sep 2018 · 255pp · 76,834 words

January 27, 2010, at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco. Cue to 1h30m to hear Steve talk about the intersection. 3. Robert X. Cringely, Steve Jobs: The Lost Interview. Furnace, Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) (as NerdTV), Oregon Public Broadcasting, John Gau Productions, 2012. Cue to 57m to hear Steve

From Airline Reservations to Sonic the Hedgehog: A History of the Software Industry

by Martin Campbell-Kelly · 15 Jan 2003

. 55. 71. Steve Lohr, Go To: The Story of The Programmers Who Created the Software Revolution (Basic Books, 2001). 72. Ibid., pp. 96–97. 73. Robert X. Cringely, Accidental Empires: How the Boys of Silicon Valley Made Their Millions, Battle Foreign Competition, and Still Can’t Get a Date (Addison-Wesley, 1992). 342

Smart Mobs: The Next Social Revolution

by Howard Rheingold · 24 Dec 2011

. Kade L. Twist, “Native Networking Trends: Wireless Broadband Networks,” Digital Beat, 20 September 2001, <http://www.benton.org/DigitalBeat/db092001.html > (23 February 2002). 64. Robert X. Cringely, “The 100 Mile-Per-Gallon Carburetor: How Ultra Wide Band May (or May Not) Change the World,” The Pulpit, 24 January 2002, <http://www.pbs