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First?

In 2002, Mac guru Scott Kelby came up with an interesting list of Apple Firsts. These include:*The 3.5″ floppy drive*color graphics *Built-in Networking*Built in wireless LAN* Built-in sound*easy access to the guts*The ability to hook more than one display (Winpc machines didnt have this till 98)*the first PDA (The Newton)*First to pick up USB even though it was a pc invention*FireWire ( this was apples baby)*Elimination of tube based displays*Elimination of internal fans (cube)To this list could be added breakthrus like  ”first computer in a box”  and the first GUI that was successful. Not including all the iapps. And of course the ipod.

7 Responses to “First?”

  1. all of these are things we take for granted today including all those pc users claiming they invented it. the newton was a bomb but it started palm and blackberry i didnt know about the first wifi but damn! apple of course thinks way different than most pc manufacturers.

    and just to keep with the title… FIRST!

    Feras aka Brnboy313 - March 27, 2008 at 11:00 pm

  2. apple simply is the definition of innovation….

    Andrew Sowers - March 27, 2008 at 11:23 pm

  3. Apple truly is the innovator.

    Look at the iMac, for instance. When PCs, were still a tower and a CRT, the iMac was just the size of the CRT. Now look at them– they’re the size of an LCD. What next??

    Curran - March 28, 2008 at 9:03 pm

  4. I have to correct you emeek, firewire was a microsoft invention, apple paid microsoft to look at the source code for one of it’s older versions which was the first to impliment it, only under a different name and they saw it and implimented it before microsoft released the OS and so Microsoft had to support it under Apple’s new name for it.

    applefan - March 30, 2008 at 2:33 am

  5. FireWire is Apple Inc.’s name for the IEEE 1394 High Speed Serial Bus. It was initiated by Apple and developed by the IEEE P1394 Working Group, largely driven by contributions from Apple, although major contributions were also made by engineers from Texas Instruments, Sony, Digital Equipment Corporation, IBM, and INMOS/SGS Thomson (now STMicroelectronics).
    Apple intended FireWire to be a serial replacement for the parallel SCSI (Small Computer System Interface) bus while also providing connectivity for digital audio and video equipment. Apple’s development began in the late 1980’s, later presented to the IEEE[2], and was completed in 1995. As of 2007, IEEE 1394 is a composite of four documents: the original IEEE Std. 1394-1995, the IEEE Std. 1394a-2000 amendment, the IEEE Std. 1394b-2002 amendment, and the IEEE Std. 1394c-2006 amendment. Work is underway to incorporate all four of those documents into a new revision of the 1394 standard.
    Sony’s implementation of the system is known as “i.LINK” (fully incorporated in 1394a-2000), and uses only the four signal pins, omitting the two pins which provide power to the device in favor of a separate power connector on Sony’s i.LINK products. The ports are sometimes labeled “S100″ or “S400″ to indicated speed in Mbps.

    you should really read your history before spouting off. MS HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH FireWire

    emeek77 - March 30, 2008 at 4:26 am

  6. hey just found out another first, apple was the first to put the keyboard on laptops to the back and the mouse in the front (1st Powerbook)

    Feras aka Brnboy313 - March 30, 2008 at 8:32 pm

  7. Surely historically there have been loads of computers that didn’t have fans? It was only later on that CPUs became hot enough to need them.

    “First GUI that was successful” is a rather vague “first” – how successful is successful? It was more successful than what was before, but Windows was, sadly, far more successful.

    The Ipod was successful, but wasn’t first with anything.

    “Look at the iMac, for instance. When PCs, were still a tower and a CRT, the iMac was just the size of the CRT. ”

    There were plenty of small computers before the Imac – indeed, even from Apple themselves, many of them were fairly small, but loads of home computers from the 80s and early 90s and the computer built into the *keyboard*.

    It was just desktop PCs that were larger – but then if you wanted small, a laptop was far smaller than any Imac.

    Mark - October 11, 2008 at 8:28 pm


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