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Subject: Re: In the past decade, has Apple released ANY high-technology product before others did?
Date: Wed, 5 Feb 2025 10:22:06 +1300
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On 2025-02-04 19:45:54 +0000, Bud Frede said:
> Marion <marion@facts.com> writes:
>> 
>> Or, did Apple just copy what others already pioneered?
>> 
>> Some might say earbuds but Apple was fourth in line to release them.
>> Others may say BT trackers, but Apple was 8 years behind the Dash.
>> <https://www.novabbs.com/computers/article-flat.php?id=18907&group=misc.phone.mobile.iphone#18907> 
>> 
>> 
>> Others may say ARM technology or CPUs, but there are so many companies who
>> pioneered CPUs before Apple even existed, that argument is patently absurd.
> 
> Apple has a long history with ARM, going back to the Newton.
> 
>> This is not a question of which is better but a question of who was first.
> 
> I think that Apple has innovated over the years, but I'm not keeping
> track of it. I like macOS and find it to be a comfortable place to work
> in. It offers support for many mainstream apps, as well as being UNIX.
> 
> To be honest, your question just seems like a lead-up to some kind of
> pissing contest, and that's quite boring.

Plus, being "first" is usually not the best anyway. Apple tends to wait 
and then release a product that is far better designed (power button on 
the bottom of the new Mac Mini being one of their mis-steps) and 
actually works properly ... and then the lazy companies like Samsung 
and Microsoft just copy Apple (and in Microsoft's case, fail miserably 
- the Microsoft MP3 player for example).

If you want to pick on a company that hasn't done anything for the tech 
industry, the Microsoft is a much better target. Everything they do is 
abysmally bad copies of someone else's work, usually bought up or 
stolen. They have never "innovated" anything in their entire existence 
.... other than perhaps the biggest mass con in getting management fools 
to buy into Windows.