A comment on Twitter seems completely divorced from basic computer history, and it’s gathering a lot of misplaced attention as something new.
Similar attempts at false “new” ideas can also be found on other platforms and channels.
I’ve discussed here before how Apple always has been following others around since the beginning; a constant late-mover in the personal computer industry that profits from taking the ideas of others without giving credit.
With all due respect I don’t know what new things they’ve done. […] Everything was demonstrable in 1973.
Cold hard facts usually prove that Apple has simply copied someone else’s ideas.
Consider, for example, the highly popular Commodore Vic20 design in 1981 for the personal computer was just like this new concept — a keyboard with the computer inside and plugged into any monitor, using peripherals for expansion.
It was unquestionably a best-selling personal computer with an incredibly affordable price and quickly reached 1 million units before Apple could. Neither obscure nor forgotten, Commodore was a true innovator.
Moreover, Commodore saw such incredible demand for this exact design that sales ballooned into 20 million Commodore computers delivered, straining ability to keep up with demand. Subsequent models included the famous Amiga (easily one of the best personal computer products in history), which offered both keyboard and standalone “box” or even headless “toaster” designs.
…such great engineering was coming out of Commodore that by 1988 an Amiga was running like a personal computer from 1998, ten years ahead of its time.
By 1990 we were able to take an Amiga, a keyboard with a computer inside, plug it into any television to watch videos in color that we downloaded on the Internet while we edited our documents. The high-end models like the Amiga 3000 look like a computer 20 years ahead of its time.
Taking the monitor off an Apple to get “likes” today on a social platform is like someone demonstrating the market rewards handsomely the laggards and follow-on products instead of recognizing true innovators… or knowledge of basic history.
