There you go, back into your Android and PC bubble. As a matter of fact, Apple was also the first computer company to standardize on USB ports before others were even much aware of them. PCs had trouble even properly implementing USB for years after. Microsoft just couldn't get it right. You do not even know much about computer history. We are talking about development in 1997, release with the first iMac in August 1998.
First wifi printers? Apple can (once again) thank Xerox for inventing that, getting going. But Apple likes to take things from other people
Again, you don't know Jack. The WIFI alliance had many sponsors, but prominent among them was APPLE! Xerox was no where to be found in having anything to do with WIFI.
Do you make up your arguments as you go along? Are you drinking?
Cutting the cord? You mean the company that builds a “Pro” computer that has essentially ZERO internal expansion? And has consistently eschewed standard sizes and cages and such to force use of their own if it’s internal - but really pushes you to use external (Firewire, Thunderbolt) for all your peripherals...
You don't use any of this stuff you are spouting off about, and you are just demonstrating your total ignorance of it. I DO USE IT, daily. IDIOT. Do you even bother to read what I wrote to you????
Firewire? Thunderbolt? Are you even aware that those are actually industry standard connectors not developed by Apple? Probably not. They are actually superior in their speed and conductibility to what was commonly used by PCs. . . but then YOU DON'T KNOW THAT so you denigrate it because you are IGNORANT of the facts.
"Goober?" I've been working in this industry and owned businesses in this industry for almost 40 years and you call me a "goober." All because you don't like a change in a product you are not going to buy, and don't use, and will never use, and do not like, but are insanely obsessed about it, its users, and the company who makes it, so much so that you invade every thread the people who DO use it and want to discuss it, and bad mouth it, the company, and them.
Did I say that Apple invented wireless headphones? Not on your life. Apple is not "forcing" anyone to use an adaptor, idiot. They are PROVIDING their users with a superior set of earbuds. How is that forcing anyone to do anything????
You are DELUSIONAL if you think that Apple is forcing buyers of Apple's iPhones to do anything! That is the problem with you Apple haters. You think Apple's customers are somehow manipulated by Apple into doing what they want them to do.
You just cannot conceive that Apple customer's, over 800,000,000 of them who have purchased over 1.3 BILLION Apple iOS products over the last NINE YEARS, really did so because they made a sane, rational decision, can you????
No, you can't conceive of that at all, can you?
Amd you can't conceive that for every iPhone sold, there are 7 or 8 Android phones. For every OSX computer sold, there are 15-20 Windows PCs sold. That in terms of market share, iOS and OSX are bit players. You foam at the mouth and rant about "feature phone this" and "limited smart that" and in the end - you end up saying nothing other than the stamping of feet and the tantrum of a child.
BUT, because Apple is the media darling and has such a vocal, jihad-like cult following, they can influence short-term decisions by companies that will negatively impact ALL of us (witness Samsung's dalliance with removal of microSD cards - they're back, after a 2 year hiatus unfortunately led by Apple's insistence they are not needed). This vocal minority unfortunately champions bad ideas that are not vetted for the world as a whole, and too many take it as gospel because of the shouting "might makes right" attitude of few.
The removal of the 3.5mm jack is viewed by the public-at-large as overwhelmingly a bad thing. If Apple's dumb decision has an impact on other phones - it's bad overall. But hey, Apple invented nothing, they lag here badly, and now that they did it, it's courageous and innovative!
But, like smug little Appcolytes, you don't give a damn about the technology world as a whole, as long as you get your Shiny New iThing that you can play with. Screw the rest - you're the best!
Bye bye!
PS: so when can we see your missives about how stupid Apple is for doing a phone with > 326 PPI screens? I mean, you've been adamant that more than 1 arc-minute of resolution at 18" (about 325 PPI) is stupid and wasteful - and now the iPhone 7 Plus has 401 PPI. So which is it - was Apple wrong in the past, and you need more resolution, or is the new design wasteful and a sign that Apple is just playing numbers games?