Apple Did It First

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  • Reply 21 of 33
    Not sure about this:

    First consumer WiFi device (airport).



    First with intergrated (well software) Bluetooth.



    First to do away with the floppy totally.



    First to do away totally with beige cases.



    First to sell a consumer supercomputer (G4- when it was first released wasn't it considered a weapon by US military?)



    First (and only?) computer company to ship company stickers with their computers.
  • Reply 22 of 33
    iBook: First laptop to integrate antenas into the computer for wireless connectivity.
  • Reply 23 of 33
    [quote]Originally posted by MafiaMac:

    <strong>I am not sure if this is correct but was the iMac the first computer to be cooled without a fan, maybe the G4 Cube? I am unsure but I think it was one those two.</strong><hr></blockquote>



    Um, I don't think those were even the first Mac's to be cooled without a fan. To my knowlage, every Clasic Mac upto the SE had no fan.
  • Reply 24 of 33
    telomartelomar Posts: 1,804member
    [quote]Originally posted by Junkyard Dawg:

    <strong>



    It's a joke, dude. Do you even know what humor is?</strong><hr></blockquote>



    Jokes are generally funny. If you are going to claim everything you say is a joke at least make it funny. Ignorance, bi-polar attitudes and teenage sexual frustration wears thin.
  • Reply 25 of 33
    [quote]Originally posted by Spiffster:

    <strong>Not sure about this:

    First consumer WiFi device (airport).



    First to sell a consumer supercomputer (G4- when it was first released wasn't it considered a weapon by US military?)

    </strong><hr></blockquote>I know there were wifi 'devices' before apple rolled out airport. AFAIK apple bundled antennaes, Dell bundled wifi nics and both claimed to be 'firsts' with wifi.



    That supercomputer campaign was based on some old legislation. IIRC it also called 40-bit encryption secure.
  • Reply 26 of 33
    serranoserrano Posts: 1,806member
    [quote]Originally posted by Junkyard Dawg:

    <strong>Apple were the first to disprove Moore's Law.</strong><hr></blockquote>



    <img src="graemlins/lol.gif" border="0" alt="[Laughing]" />



    Last I checked Apple neither designs nor fabs chips.



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  • Reply 27 of 33
    [quote]Originally posted by xmoger:

    <strong>That supercomputer campaign was based on some old legislation. IIRC it also called 40-bit encryption secure.</strong><hr></blockquote>



    Also, the measure of a "supercomputer" is by it's realworld capiblity, not the max theroetical performance Apple used.
  • Reply 28 of 33
    ".I wonder if Apple owns some kind of a patent for a global menu-bar implementation."



    nah amiga workbench had it, and so did atari ST's os erm TOS is it?
  • Reply 29 of 33
    spartspart Posts: 2,060member
    Wasn't the Apple III fanless? At least Jobs wanted it that way...
  • Reply 30 of 33
    Apple was the first to win my heart. My wife was the second, our daughter the third.
  • Reply 31 of 33
    [quote]Originally posted by Telomar:

    <strong>



    Jokes are generally funny. If you are going to claim everything you say is a joke at least make it funny. Ignorance, bi-polar attitudes and teenage sexual frustration wears thin.</strong><hr></blockquote>



    LOL, props for that.

    Telomar: 1

    JYD: 0



    <img src="graemlins/lol.gif" border="0" alt="[Laughing]" /> <img src="graemlins/smokin.gif" border="0" alt="[Chilling]" />
  • Reply 32 of 33
    [quote]Originally posted by Brad:

    <strong>Perhaps, but it's still worth noting that Apple was the one that conceived and developed , FireWire, in 1995 even though it didn't integrate FW onto motherboards until 1999. Actually, I believe Apple still gets a few cents licensing fee for each FireWire device that is sold.</strong><hr></blockquote>I think Apple collects a few cents in royalties for the use of the 'FireWire' name only, not the IEEE 1394 technology. I think they were a big IEEE 1394 adopter, not creator (if memory serves anyway).
  • Reply 33 of 33
    chuckerchucker Posts: 5,089member
    [quote]Originally posted by Eugene:

    <strong>I wonder if Apple owns some kind of a patent for a global menu-bar implementation.</strong><hr></blockquote>



    LinuxSTEP will probably have that, too.
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