“the apple ][ as not inventive not one part in it was created by Apple just assembled off the shelf parts with some tweaking.”
And so was the PC platform for that matter.
Yes Boca Raton did not do much in the way of inovation either but those 3 magic letters changed the computer market to the PC market.
(I collected compouters, have IBM PC XT and AT & Jr Apple ][+ Apple /// and a Lisa and Kapro IV and 16 (among many others)
“Apple just assembled off the shelf parts with some tweaking ... And so was the PC platform for that matter”
Hey, these are consumer items that must be cheap and must work well. Most parts must all have second sources.
Tell me a consumer product that wasn’t pretty mundane on the inside. Hardware, that is. Software is a different story.