[pharzo]

Originally Posted by Global Hemisphere Originally Posted by pharzo Originally Posted by Global Hemisphere Thank god! Apple is over. I grew up on them but that was in 80s. Making a computer that both hardware and software is proprietary and that represents less than 4% of the world’s computers was just stupid. and point and click can be attributed to apple, as can touchscreens with handwriting recognition. and functioning gui's. as well as pda's...yeah they definitely deserve to die Nope Xerox invented the GUI, Apple paid for a "demo" of the Xerox GUI OS and then stole the idea and came out with the Mac a few years later.

They did not "pay for a 'demo'" as you say, but they hired people who worked for Xerox. Then they looked at what they had developed and built on it. They expanded the system and made it usable, as well as popular. They made the idea practical....they made it work