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2010-10-20 , 09:57
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Originally Posted by richwhite View Post
i didn't say he invented those things, i'm well aware he didn't, but they were the company to make them mainstream. Like the iPhone, nothing there was new, in fact it omitted some basic, desired functionality (still does), but it was still the device to make those things widely purchased
Much the way you can attribute Microsoft as the company to make computers, in general, mainstream. A tad more fundamental credibility creds there to Microsoft, going by your reasoning, no? Nonetheless, I understand your point--Apple did generally get credit for popularizing computers for the rehabilitating technophobic and the logically impaired.

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