Perhaps for pc’s but evolution within a single product family is to be expected. The minicomputer and workstation world had windows years before the micros did. And the research from bell labs and xerox and mit preceded that.

We are consumers, we don't give a damn about research.

The company which signs off the global adoption gets all the marbles

it's the doctrine and it's accepted by everybody in the history of American industry excet for Microsoft that somehow cheated its way there or it doesn't count because Steve Jobs says so is ridiculous honestly.

Revisionism at its best