But let's be real about where WYSIWYG came from...and it wasn't Apple.
But let's be real about where WYSIWYG came from...and it wasn't Apple.
Well... actually, you're mistaken there, because Apple was working on that development in their own computer before anything that they saw at Xerox.
Now, Xerox and Apple were working from some "common information" even before either of them -- but Apple was already working on it without any connection to Xerox, and Xerox had been working on it, too.
And then, later, after Apple had worked on theirs for a while, Jobs was told about the Xerox project and he got permission from Xerox, and paid them handsomely to see how far along they were, as compared to how far along Apple was.
So, Apple had already been working on it themselves, and later on, they took at look at Xerox and paid them (what turned out to be millions of dollars) for just a "look" at it and a "demonstration" -- that's all... LOL ...
AND THEN..., in the end -- Xerox did nothing with it. And Apple went forward with their own work and did what you have now.
And then later, Microsoft copied Apple.... :-)
Actually, you are wrong. XEROX did not invent the WYSIWYG... Apple did. XEROX did invent the GUI and Apple and XEROX jointly invented a lot of what is today accepted as standard. Xerox invented the windows of the GUI. Apple invented the draggable, movable windows and nested drop down sub-menuing systems... and has documented, photographic evidence of every step to back that up.
But Apple did develop the "What you see is what you get" concept. XEROX had not gotten very far at all with developing the metaphor of what you saw on the screen would be what you got printed on the page. Apple was responsible for that. That is why they wound up owning the publishing platform market. They were the ones that coupled the 72 DPI screen (1/72 of an inch is a PICA in printing terms) in both directions to the 72 DPI printing and then moved that to a laser printer. Microsoft was crippled because their screen was NOT 72 dpi in both directions... and had to jump through hoops to convert the screen to the printed page. I know, i was there in the printing publishing industry during all of this.