Apple is the world's most innovative company, according to BusinessWeek. A stunning 24.84 per cent of 940 senior business executives from across the planet who voted chose to recognise Apple as the world's most innovative company.
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'Invented the personal computer as we know it'?
Not quite. Most of the work came out of Xerox PARC - not just the mouse, but the bones of the interface. Having not invented said mouse, Apple can hardly be said to have innovated it since.
Full-colour display? I thought the original Macintosh was monochrome, and not cutting-edge in that regard?
Inventing wireless networking isn't something I've ever heard about them either.
Their products are generally pretty slick compared to much of the competition, but they tend to improve things rather than innovate.
Member since:So in that case, do you think Xerox should be considered most innovative? Honestly -- love 'em or hate 'em -- Apple really has brought a lot of the major technologies we use to the desktop. As for wireless networking, the original iBook was the first personal computer to ever ship with wireless networking (802.11b). Again, they didn't invent it -- but they discovered it, then said "hey, we can make this work!", then they offered it. Then of course, a year or so later, everyone offers it. This happens time and time again throughout the course of Apple's history -- from the mouse to fonts to USB, etc.
Hate their interfaces, hate iPods, hate white plastics, whatever! But give them credit where credit is due! They really have made massive strides in leading development in personal computers even with such low market-share!
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Think about it! First of all, they invented the personal computer as we know it. You might consider that a fairly important innovation. Then they went on to introduce the mouse (actually invented by Xerox but certainly popularized by Mac), a folders, windows and destop metaphor for the GUI, full-color graphical display, fonts, USB (again not invented but introduced to personal computing), anti-aliasing, wireless networking, the list goes on and on and on! So many things that we take for granted -- using ANY platform -- were in fact *innovated* by Apple. White boxes indeed!