Apple founder Steve Jobs is often cited as a visionary for creating the world’s first interface device with the creation of the virtual desktop and the mouse. What a lot of people don’t realize is that these ideas were thought of first by Xerox. Apple just marketed it better. Steve Jobs once took a tour of a Xerox factory, noticed the computer that had a desktop interface, and stored this information for his own use, years later. Apple then had the nerve to accuse Microsoft of stealing “its” idea with the Windows operating system. The myth is that MIcrosoft always copies Apple. But long time veterans of the computer industry know that Apple almost always finds its ideas somewhere else first. They are simply geniuses at branding and marketing and know how to present an idea in a way that it hasn’t been thought of before, so they can take credit for “inventing” it.
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