Steve Jobs Demonstrated Why Businesses Need More Ceremonies

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"when Steve Jobs saw a demonstration at Xerox’s Palo Alto Research Center of a computer mouse visually interacting with files on a desktop, he launched Apple Computer Inc. to bring that dream to consumers."

Um, Apple I? Apple II? Woz?

Also, post hoc fallacy - lots of failed companies also have ceremonies.

I think that was before Al Gore invented the Internet, so her fact-checking got munged.

Apple started in 1976.

The PARC visits were in 1979.

The first GUI was on the Lisa, then later on the lower-cost Mac in 1984.

A good history here:

http://www.mac-history.net/computer-history/2012-03-22/apple...

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