Re: Apple? Invent?
"They don't invent much, really. If anything."
This is a FRBUM (Frequently Repeated But Untrue Meme).
Apple has invented about as much, and probably more than other companies in the IT/Technnology sector. A responsive GUI? Thank Apple, Bill Atkinson in particular because that was his doing. Although GUIs existed before Apple's interest they were relatively clunky and needed significant computing power to work. Atkinson worked out QuickDraw which had features no one else had thought of (BitBlt, GrafPorts, Regions among them).
Like all other companies they adopt an approach of only re-inventing the wheel when the wheel is shown to be inadequate for the job. However to claim that they don't invent much isn't supportable.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
