The State of Software
The Unix operating system found its beginnings in MULTICS, which stands for Multiplexed Operating and Computing System. The MULTICS project began in the mid 1960s as a joint effort by General Electric, Massachusetts Institute for Technology and Bell Laboratories. In 1969 Bell Laboratories pulled out of the project.
All they have to do is watch the (auto playing) video, which means that almost all of them will. After watching the demo, the potential customer is (hopefully) sold or at least interested in the product. At this point, they might be willing to go through the steps of installing a trial version or even buy it.
Several application developers have added in-webpage video demos of their programs. I’m surprised that not everyone has done so. Instead of asking a potential customer to download a trial version (or worse, to just buy it) and then install it, this approach lets them see what it’s like to use the application without any effort on their part. While more complex programs can’t be completely demonstrated in a short clip, it can still give viewers a sense of how easy it is to use, how quickly it operates etc.
Of all the computers that Apple has ever made there’s only one that Steve Jobs had to sell his car to finance — It was sold for $905,000 in 2014 at the auction.
The Apple-1, as the machine is known, is one of fifty hand-assembled by Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak in Jobs’ family garage in 1976. It was the first pre-assembled computer ever made (they usually came as kits) and is credited by many tech historians as kick-starting the PC revolution.