steveH
2011-10-06 11:52:29
Snork,
PARC didn’t invent the GUI, they were just the last in a line that included Evans and Sutherland (before the company) and SRI (particularly Doug Englebart’s group) before Jobs and Apple picked up the idea. And Apple finally shipped product using their development of it.
Apple doesn’t claim to have invented the personal music player. They did, on the other hand, bring up a viable environment around it that opened it up to just about everyone.
It may all be overrated…but it’s in use by multiple millions of people daily, spending their own money by choice.
