Believe it or not, I'll agree with most of this statement
I am not an "Applemaniac" as Adornoe likes to call me, though I admit to having used Apple products almost from the very beginning because they simply were the better product--if not the most popular. Better in that they were easier to use from the outset and didn't require the extensive OS knowledge that Dos and later Windows required. How did I know? I've used them both pretty much from the beginning and have deep hands-on experience with every version except WinME and Win2K. In fact, when Win95 came out, I already had nearly 5 years of experience with a GUI on an OS and had to teach many of my co-workers and even supervisors how it worked because it looked so different from Win 3.x.
I'm not saying, nor have I ever said that Apple "invented" any of these technologies; but rather that Apple was the first to make them useable by common people--not just techies. As such, the history above is essentially correct, though without Apple pushing the limits, especially in the last 15 years, we'd still be stuck with either Dos or maybe an early version of Windows. No other manufacturer has driven the computing environment so hard despite its formerly tiny place in the market. What we don't know is if Apple can maintain its momentum without Jobs himself at the helm.
