Hi Walter, If you would have read carefully, you would have understood that I agreed with you. MS aka Winows was in the more or less forced upon the Wintel machines. Not to say that better OSes were not out there, but you had to pay extra for them and things were highly incompatible in the beginning. But that is another story and does not belong here. Like I mentioned the iPhone made things easier and in a sense affordable. As far as the PC goes it was either Apple or IBM! Can not remember which can out first. But IBM was responsible for coining PC. But to get On Topic : Would you say is responsible for e-books? My vote goes to PG, because with out it the books available for all those fancy readers would be minimal. regards Keith Am 24.01.2010 um 22:09 schrieb Walter van Holst:
On 1/24/10 7:41 PM, Keith J. Schultz wrote:
Sorry for stepping in so late!
You're both missing the point by a whole galaxy. The point is which product actually became widely accepted. I know that Xerox invented the PC (even with a GUI, to boot). I know that there were cell phones with internet capabilities around before the iPhone (I'm in Europe and have been in the telecoms industry). The point is which product enabled or caused the masses to use desktop computing or mobile internet. Not which product was 'first'.
Regards,
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