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Look at competing products; tell me that they are all wrong.

Apple ditched the floppy drive while others still offered it. Apple ditched the old serial and parallel connectors in favor of USB and Firewire, and the others still offered RS-232 and parallel. Apple ditched CRTs for LCDs way before the competition.

Because of its unique position, Apple can afford to drop legacy technology and legacy ways of thinking. OTOH, the iPad still has USB, just not in the form of that overly-large USB plug.

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Apple ditched the floppy drive while others still offered it. Apple ditched the old serial and parallel connectors in favor of USB and Firewire, and the others still offered RS-232 and parallel. Apple ditched CRTs for LCDs way before the competition.

Apple does it every time... they move the market forward when the other manufacturers, if left to their own choices, would stay permanently in the past. Thank God for Apple or we would still be reading green letters on a screen and looking at ASCII Art ... LOL ...

Here's the "artwork" we would be looking at today, if not for Apple Computer ...

And here's what the other manufacturers would have us looking at today on our screens if not for Apple perfecting lettering/typespacing/graphics on the screen for the average Joe at home on his desktop ...

Thank you Apple for rescuing us from those mindless computer manufacturers...