10-01-2019, 06:45 AM
(09-30-2019, 09:46 PM)Klaus Wrote: The thing is - Apple was never the first (in terms of product, not patents) except for the first "home computer" and, yes, the first PDA (and then they abandoned it for a decade).
Whether you call that copying or "inspired by" ... well ...
As I mentioned, they were several times the first to transform a good idea into a great one that appeals to a bigger audience. I never disputed that and I never disputed that they have great products. I have a Macbook Pro and an iPad Pro - and I used to own an iphone (3G and 4). But I don't treat it as a religion nor do I desperately defend it like some people (you?) do.
Yes, Apple abandoned the PDA and since the Blackberry and iPhone the PDA is extinct.
Apple was the first with, to name a few:
- Home computer
- Personal computer with GIU
- Postscript Laserprinter (Adobe's PostScript pushed in the right direction by... Steve Jobs)
- Pioneered Multimedia on personal computers with QuickTime (1991)
- QuickTime VR
- PDA
- 1st consumer digital (colour) camera (QuickTake 100, developed with Kodak), 1994
- 1st smartphone operated on the screen, not with buttons, by your fingers (iPhone), basically what we now all use and did not exist before the iPhone.
I am not defending anything desperately, I am just countering unnuanced, incorrect statements.