[el-dude-arino]

> The barrier is inventing and organizing the logistics of delivering the most cutting edge technology

LOL, nothing Apple does is cutting edge. They took Linux and made it easy for corporate system admins. Touchscreens were invented back in the 60's. GUI's were created by Xerox.

Steve Jobs was a hack and a douche by all accounts, the reverence people have for him is laughable. But this is the behavior of the oligarchs and the monopolies they run; they have such centralized power that they're able to vacuum up all competitors, even potential or tangential ones.

[sbuk]

Apple used 386BSD (4.3?), some userland from FreeBSD, and the Mach Microkernel from *CMU, all from the acquisition from NeXT, who developed XNU and NeXTStep 18 months-2 years before the Linux kernel was released. The innovative thing with the touch screen was smooth and accurate touch based gestures on a capacitive screen. GUI's were argubably invented by Ivan Sutherland and further developed by Doug Engelbart at SRI, which is where PARC poached the majority of their engineers.

If your going to troll, have the decency to get your facts straight.

* Edited for clarity