He had resuscitated the Macintosh PC line but Apple products still represented a verysmall percentage of the total desktop computers purchased in the world.
The battle between local storage and shared storage has a long history, back to the very beginnings of the personal computer industry, when smallcomputers with local storage began to replace dumb terminals connected to centralized mainframe computers.
Scientists can make quantum computers from light particles known as photons, but they can also use an array of single atoms or even verysmall electrical circuits.