APPLE | SPREADSHEETS | VISUAL THINKING
Apple Numbers Has More Value For The Users Than Sum Total Off Its Functions
A superb spreadsheet that has infinite potential for visual thinkers for free.
Spreadsheets have been helping business people to calculate, analyse and simulate numeric values of the business with personal computers since VisiCalc in 1979.
VISICALC represented a new idea of a way to use a computer and a new way of thinking about the world. Where conventional programming was thought of as a sequence of steps, this new thing was no longer sequential in effect: When you made a change in one place, all other things changed instantly and automatically.
— Ted Nelson.
Interestingly VisiCorp developed VisiCalc first for Apple II, two years before the big, bad, and ugly IBM started to destroy the good taste and industrial design with their PC.
After the killer app for Apple II, spreadsheets became the bread and butter of every serious business person.
Because Bill Gates was a clever businessman, he jumped on the bandwagon immediately. He released Microsoft’s Excel in 1985 to compete with Lotus123 after Microsoft’s first attempt to conquer the desert of cells…
