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Portable convenience [The Square Comics] (lemmy.world)

submitted 5 months ago by The_Picard_Maneuver to c/comicstrips

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[–] MurrayL 10 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (2 children)

what usually gets lost on people is how Mac tended to have had things first, like everything has Bluetooth now, but Mac OSX had it long before Windoze did

That's just not true - in fact, Apple is well-known for repeatedly releasing 'new' products/features that already existed elsewhere, but acting like they invented it. That goes all the way back to the original Macintosh.

Or, to use your example, everything I can find says MacOS added Bluetooth support in 2004, while Windows XP was patched to support Bluetooth in 2002.

MacOS is good software, but let's not pretend Apple hasn't built their entire empire based on pinching other people's ideas and marketing them better.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

People hate on apple coming out with features later than other companies but then they usually blow the competition out of the water in terms of ux. It’s not marketing them better, it’s implementing better.

It’s like valve helping develop proton vs making another nvidia shield or windows handheld.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

I probably misremembered some stuff but also stated it too broadly - it was a lot more "mainstream" in Macs than in Windows, in part b/c you could purchase a low-end Windows machine, whereas all Macs start off at a baseline minimum that is fairly high.

Also, Apple put BSD Unix into the very core of their Macs years before Microsoft started poking their noses around the subject.

The end result was a machine that "just worked", right out of the box, which was pretty nice.