What? Apple was the pioneer, the inventor, the innovator, that shaped the whole industry. Many technologies we take for granted today were pioneered by Apple. For example — Wi-Fi.
When did Apple invent Wifi again?
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that first clamshell iBook was the first laptop with WiFi.
The first laptop with built in wifi, you could buy expansion cards with WIFI for PC laptops of the time. And Apple in no way shape or form made wireless networks take off, esp considering the Mac marketshare was hovering around 2% at the time.
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No, there weren't any notebooks with Wi-Fi before the first iBook.
Yes there were, you just inserted a Wifi card into the expansion slot of a PC laptop, install the drivers. And boom, wifi.
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He took Apple and made it the most valuable company in the world.
He took Pixar and made it the best Animation Studio in the world.
And how did that change the world? It didn't.
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The iBook may have been the first Apple laptop with WiFi built-in, but you could add Wi-Fi to PowerBooks prior to that through their PCMIA slots. PowerBooks used to be extremely expandable. You could swap out optical drives, add extra batteries, all sorts of stuff.
So your saying the iBook introduced the ****** disposable laptop?
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Wi-Fi means nothing per se, it's useless, it's not even something tangible. It's just a standard. What matters most is the end product which makes use of the technology. Now you see Wi-Fi everywhere, everywhere and a laptop which has no wifi support noone is going to buy. Wasn't that a revolution? Not to mention all modern laptops are based on the design of Apple's Powerbook 100.
Indeed, on the Powerbook 100.
And you could get Wifi on other laptops via expansion cards, which was a better option at the time, as wireless networking evovled VERY quickly in the early days.
The Mac had like a 2 or 3% marketshare back then, its silly to think it swayed the entire PC industry that was litterally 50 times the size of Apple back then.
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Wasn't the automobile based on the wooden wagon? Should beavers sue the USA for the Hoover Dam? BTW Xerox had nothing to do with drag'n'drop or overlapping windows. Their GUI concepts were extremely simple and abstract unlike what Apple created for the Macintosh (the complete GUI solution) and what Microsoft later ripped off.
The early automobiles were, but the mass produced automobile was a totally different animal.
Xerox had everything to do with the concept of the GUI, the entire idea of a GUI and the mouse came from Xerox, so.
Apple stole it, and added things. Then microsoft stole it and added things.
Thats why the case was thrown out of court.
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And yet Apple merely implemented it, not invent it, as I said.
Indeed, and their implementation was pretty small at the time, everyone was just using expansion cards back then. Which were just as good.
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What does it matter? WiFi was a product of cooperation between several companies who specialized in communication. Apple is and have always been a system vendor and software company. They don't have to invent specialized electronics. However you have them to thank for your wireless network at home. Not Dell, not Microsoft and definitely not Samsung.
And you don't have Apple to thank for it, as I said. At the time the Mac Marketshare was so small, it had zero effect on the PC market. Laptops had wifi that weren't macs, they were just in expansion cards.
The early wireless networks were developed by NCR and AT%T, so you can put lots of thanks in them.
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No, I'll thank the person who invented Wi-Fi actually. How do you know it wouldn't have become the standard on it's own.
Because Apple commanded with a 3% marketshare, the entire industy bowed down to Steve jobs, and said " we will take this tech that you formed out of clay, and bask your greatness in our products. Amen "
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It wasn't a single person, it was a joint effort.
And it was Apple who paved the way for it to your home, because noone was seeeing IEEE 802.11 (no, it wasn't called Wi-Fi back then) as a technology useful to consumers. Give them credit where credit is due already.
Apple had ZERO sway in the industry at the time, and they certainly did not create the standard. Wireless networks existed before Apple, sorry.
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You're missing the point. Think about architecture. Bricks and glass aren't worth a dime, but when you throw them together — in a really right way — you end up with something great, something generations will marvel at.
And who really marvels at Intel ABG3955 wireless chips?
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Who marvels are a ****ing phone?
And an Intel Wireless Chip? If you had even a vague understanding of how something like a wireless chip works, or a video card, or hell, anything computer related, you would understand the massive amount of innovation, engineering, genuis and plain ole hard work that goes into things like Wifi.
Without those bricks and the glass, your pinch to zoom would never exist, neither would your iPhone.
What people don't get, is that Apple is not a hardware company, they are a design house. They contribute nothing to the industry as a whole. They have not in a very long time.
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Deep hatred apple haters feel for Apple products and for people who use them is something to be worried about.
I am not an Apple hater, or lover.
I don't hate or love a faceless multinational cooperation. I give them money, they give me the product in exchange for my money. And I leave it at that.
I also am brand Agnostic, I will buy whatever products suits my needs the best, regardless of who makes it, Weather it be Apple, Samsung, Microsoft, Google, or whoever.
