MrMafoo on 10 January 2008
| NJ5 said: The computer mouse was invented by a Stanford researcher and first used commercially by Xerox. Computer raster graphics were first used by Xerox, I believe. Also, was HDTV really invented by Sony? Never heard of that. The world wide web was invented by Tim Berners Lee, who implemented the first browser and server in a NeXT computer. Not much contribution from NextStep or Apple there... I wrote this post using Firefox running on Windows Vista. Because of Mozilla and Microsoft, this post exists. |
Almost everything in the computer world we use today came from Xerox PARC. But when they threw it away (they were a paper company, and didn't want a paperless office), Apple took the idea and ran with it. They released a computer that could have been a total flop. They released a phone that could have been a flop. They released the I-pod when it could have been a flop. There was no guarantee of profit, and from a pure revenue standpoint, innovation is a bad idea. Apple and Sony innovate regardless. Microsoft does not. They take what looks like a profitable, proven road, and follow it.
And the NextStep was Steve Jobs brainchild, so that’s why I included it. Without the Next OS, the WWW would have not been realized (not when it was anyway)
