| Joel Koltner 2007-10-24, 10:33 pm |
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> It was Apple that first put 802.11 wireless
> networking/Internet into their computers as standard, using Lucent
> technology then and now called "Airport".
I very much doubt that no PCs had WiFi as standard prior to Apple coming it
with it standard on their computers. Are you really suggesting that's the
case? No, e.g., laptop manufacturer was shipping WiFi already integrated onto
the motherboard when Apple first released a machine with
motherboard-integrated WiFi?
> My 7 year old Pismo laptop
> still works great; try and find a working 7 year old Compaq laptop.
You don't see them because something like a 7-year-old Compaq laptop has zero
(or negative!) resale value, but I guarantee you that there are plenty sitting
around in peoples' closests.
> Apple was first with Sony's 3 1/2 floppy disks in 1984
That might be relatively close to accurate.
> and first with Office networked desktop computers also in 1984.
Hardly -- there were tons of PC networking options available before 1984.
Remember ARCNET?
Apple certainly tries hard to innovate -- as many companies do -- and they do
appear to have some legitimate new contributations in the iPhone.
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