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WMD:

--- Quote from: anphanax ---Someone makes a claim that Apple brought widgets to the desktop, and I bother to mention they were on Windows already via third-party software (e.g. StarDock), and it's like i've started some sort of holy war with them. Just tired of the "Apple innovates before everyone else" attitude of certian individuals. Apologies for the semi off-topic rant.
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I seem to be the only one in the world to notice this, so I'll share the knowledge.

StarDock wasn't the first thing with widgets either.  In fact, guess who had the essential idea first?  Apple!  Haha!  Let's go back to System 1, 1984.  You had the "desk accessories."  These were small programs that ran on top of the current app (unlike anything else in System 1, which only allowed one real app at a time), and when you had one running and then opened another, they appeared *and disappeared* together.  Clicking the close button on them closed one, but doing "Quit" closed them all.

I don't know about you, but this is really close to Dashboard, but with some differences due to the tech of the day.

ReggieMicheals:
It's true that Apple innovated some things, but they crush some products that could've developed into a innovative OS, such as GEM. So far the only company that has escaped Apple's fears of being trampled by a better idea. That company was Microsoft back when they had some innovation from their work with IBM.

mobrien_12:

--- Quote from: ReggieMicheals ---It's true that Apple innovated some things, but they crush some products that could've developed into a innovative OS, such as GEM. So far the only company that has escaped Apple's fears of being trampled by a better idea. That company was Microsoft back when they had some innovation from their work with IBM.
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True that.  I don't know how the courts let them win that ridiculous lawsuit against Digital Research.

inane:
Well I love old DOS games, a quick trip to the underdogs website can pretty much sum up why.

Xeniczone:
well some ppl complain about how a veriety of stuff out there for windows and only 1 company to buy macintosh.

You do know if there wasn't a copyright issue way back when microsoft got started IBM would be the only company to sell microsoft product.

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