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> They've been an NIH company since the beginning So who did Woz copy for the Apple I ][ and ///? > and now you & few others are desperately touting the one,
by sbuk 3y ago
> They've been an NIH company since the beginning
So who did Woz copy for the Apple I ][ and ///?
> and now you & few others are desperately touting the one, or one of the few areas where they embraced standards. Assuming they did.
They were one of the first adopters, if not the first. They have been involved in the design of nearly every USB standard since; Micro USB being a notable exception.
> I believe that is just wrong. Mac users might have had an outsized impact, but the mass market always refrained from jumping on things until they were available for Windows.
Go get a copy of a computer magazine from around 6 months after the iMac G3 was released...
The thing is that on one hand, you're claiming that they're not innovative and on the other, suffering from NIH syndrome, so by implication, innovating. Which is it?
- AlbertCory 3y agooh, you think you've found a contradiction. Fun. I never said they were "innovating." And it's funny how you all concentrate on USB and avoid AppleTalk. Or the Newton, which came about because Sculley stabbed their own alumni in the back. Or the "apple online network" (early 90's) which I can't even find the name of now. Or, for that matter, FireWire, which found almost no lasting traction in the Windows world. And of course you all decline to talk about their failure to make any contribution to the IETF. Or threatening to sue Microsoft over Windows.