[M8]

"The only human labor noted in the press was the initial design of the machine, which was performed by men."

Who gets the credit for e.g. iPhone? Chinese workers? That person who was tweaking the icons to look pixel-perfect (pre-iOS7)? CEO?

[danparsonson]

Apple does - I doubt anyone truly believes that Steve Jobs personally designed the whole iPhone; also, the Chinese workers are at least in the public consciousness - apart from the Foxconn labour controversies, each unit has 'Made in China' written on it somewhere.

If as the article says the ENIAC news reports were along the lines of 'here is a machine that can calculate trajectories, and these are the men who designed it', who's to know that maybe half of the effort was undertaken by others not mentioned?

[M8]

designed != implemented

[danparsonson]

My wording not theirs, and incidental to the point I was making.

[_bfhp]

So it wouldn't be odd in the least if the programmers of iOS were just totally erased from Apple's history?