Originally Posted by clickwir
Well actually Jobs and 'The Woz' took the idea for GUI and a mouse from Xerox. They freely admited that many times.
Now the b and g wireless, I don't know how much of a role apple actually had in that, because you can look on the IEEE site and the contributors to those standards, I don't see apple listed anywhere.
And if I recall back... I think Unisys had the first USB prototype.
i found this regarding USB..
The USB peripheral bus standard was jointly developed by Compaq, IBM, DEC, Intel, Microsoft, NEC, and Northern Telecom.
and regarding SCSI..
Apple didn't invent SCSI - that's popularly credited to ex-IBMer Larry Boucher
and if you dig a little deeper..
"The original SCSI specification was a lineal descendent of SASI, the Shugart Associates Standard Interface, created by one Al Shugart, who was the founder of Shugart Associates (makers of floppy disk drives) and then Seagate. So while Mr. Boucher may have been a contributor to the specification (as I'm sure were many others), I believe Mr. Shugart should properly be credited as the "inventer" of SCSI."
next thing you know, apple will have invented the wheel..
anyway, jafro, i agree, competition is good.