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Originally Posted by guyanonymous
My 20GB MP3 player, by iRiver, still has better sound quality than Apple's MP3 players - and came out long before.
My first laptop - surprisingly - came out before Apple's PowerBook's, trackpad and all.
Smartphones existed prior to the iPhone.
And I had PC's (dos based) prior to Mac's existence.
They have affected design - but don't make the assumption that they led the market in creation. They do tend to refine the designs of others rather well, however.
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They invented the
Proprietary everything model
IMHO the 1 big thing that made the IBM PC (4.7 MHz 8086) great, was it's open architecture . They tried to fix that
sales problem with the PS-2 micro-channel
Thankfully, the buyers resisted
