L. M. Lloyd

This is a silly post that I want to put up just because I have already been through this with USB. About a week ago, news broke all over the Internet that Apple had played a pivotal role in designing the new Light Peak standard by Intel. Now it turns out that this was in no way true. Now I don't really expect anyone to care all that much about this. The only reason I'm posting is because I know good and damned well that years from now, when it is a standard in all computers, the crazy Macheads will use the false reports of it all being Apple's idea, as another example of how innovative Apple is, and how they invented everything. They do it with USB (which Apple had no involvement with, and which only appeared on Macs years after it was standard equipment on PCs), they do it with FireWire (which was developed by Adaptec, Sony and SGI, and in which Apple's only involvement was to come up with the snazzy name and say they wanted something like a GameBoy connector, then let other people actually do the development), and they will no doubt do it again with Light Peak. I just point this all out, because in 2015, when I am sure some Machead will be trying to argue that Light Peak was developed by Apple, I want some sort of proof of that not being the case, before the technology even launched.