[brucehoult]

Apple not the first with 6502?

The 6502 was introduced at Wescon in September 1975.

Apple I was out in April 1976. That's seven months.

The KIM1, a board made by MOS to demonstrate their 6502 chip, was also released in April 1976. Even they didn't beat Apple to it.

Commodore Pet was December 1977. Rockwell AIM65 was 1978. Acorn System 1 was March 1979. Atari 400 was November 1979

In short: I don't know what the heck you're talking about.

Similarly, the Lisa was a very early 68000 machine. The Amiga and Atari ST were years after the Lisa and Mac. Only very expensive workstations from HP, Apollo and Sun were before the Apple Lisa.

[thuccess129]

In the era of Steve Jobs's second stint at Apple as the interim head, the Mac was designed on the very expensive Sun workstation.

[smackeyacky]

So, they are batting 50% either being first with a dead end (6502, PowerPC) or being late (68000, Intel). Not exactly a stellar record of innovation in CPU adoption.

If the pattern holds the M1 is due to be a dead end.