In the Apple story, somebody seizes a hardware advance to make something that matters. Their relentless focus on human-centered design and usability, fighting all authority and corporate structure, makes something so stunningly popular and useful that the corporate overlords are •forced• to acknowledge it. They then cannibalize and gradually half-ruin it.
(Aside: a much-updated original version of Graphing Calculator is still available as commercial software, and it’s quite good: https://www.pacifict.com)
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