Alomex, I recall an old Xerox PC machine machine I bought from Tom Freeman at Advanced Computer Products in LA (in 1982-3??)that has a mouse and a window color system. Apparently this was licensed to Apple and ended up in the Macs, and that is why Apple lost it's look and feel lawsuit.
Xerox marketing could not give free food to starving people. They completely failed to pick up on the Xerox PARC(Palo Alto Research Center) lead the Xerox gave to the PC world. Apple and MSFT saw this and they both ran it in parallel internally with Apple first to market(way back then MSFT was very small, and Apple had the money to go forward, but they both got licences from Xerox)
The computational over head has always slowed the Macs, this came to a head with the LISA being so slow that it died. Faster processors saved the following generations, but even with the faster processors the APples were often as slow or slower than the WIntels. The Apple were busier internally doing more things and they needed faster CPUs just to survive.
Those extra things made the Apple far better than Wintels for ease of use, and so they went to the people who were motion analog people(artists and creatives as they say) and not to the digitals(DOS lovers, an equally creative group in another area) and also cost it extra money to implement, a mixed blessing, as they say.
Apple cannot act and sing as if it has had all this stolen and wants a policeman to rectify it. Apple is where it is now because a few stupid greedy people subverted the company to personal agendas that did not jibe with reality. They got paid very well as Apple cratered. I count Jobs among them. He may have seen the light and have some advisors able to steer the right path. The jury is out, and so far not impressed.
Bill |
