I tried to educate you with the time period and what was invented when people say the good ole days. You clearly ignored that information and went back to your original incorrect, ignorant, statement. I thought maybe after giving you the knowledge you'd get it. Guess not.
What statement was that? I said the good ol' days weren't as great as everyone remembers it being. Apple made some incredible moves and won some awesome bets, but there were also lots of things that Apple was going the wrong direction on in those good old days. There was only a short period of time in which we could say the gap between Apple and everyone else was huge... I only count a few years of the iPhone that fit that description.
I don't start the Steve Jobs clock from the moment that the iPhone gained critical mass. I also count the years in which Apple needed a $150 million investment from Microsoft to make itself seem relevant and when the iMac won critical praise year after year, but didn't dent the dominance of Windows machines nor halt Apple's slide right out the door of the very education market that they once had a stranglehold on (with Steve Jobs version 1.0 even).
I count the Steve Jobs that tried to sell us on the idea that all computers should look like the G4 Cube or that you only need one button on a mouse, and the one that insisted that the iOS App ecosystem should
not be opened to third party developers. I even count the stupid licensing fees that kneecapped Firewire as a viable transfer protocol.
If you want to worship at the alter of St. Steve, you have to also acknowledge that a lot of his bets went the wrong direction.