Apple Inc (AAPL)

[Altaire4_2dot0]

...Implementing new thangs.

If Apple had not existed as a company its doubtful that many cutting edge technologies over the last thirty years would have been implemented. If people don't understand why Apple is a good investment substitute the word Microsoft for the word Apple in the previous sentence and see if it makes sense.

Or flip the coin: by maintaining its own OS and having control over the hardware, Apple was able to get USB off the drawing board and into volume production. When had you seen USB keyboards, USB external drives, USB pointers ... before the iMac? Nobody in the Wintel world could do it. Apple did. Then once peripherals were made for the market, Wintel could take advantage of the fact. But without Apple to ditch old legacy tech, there was no secure market for new manufacurers (the same can be said for BIOS).

-Alt