Sometime Today, j cobbled together some glyphs to say:
taking gui to the masses. .. making things simpler that what they would have been
Apple did that
No they didn't. Apple took gui to the rich and l33t, not to the masses where it really mattered.
make computing more affordable and relilable ... to make lif e a lot more easir by improving the interfaces to computers an making them more useful to common man without putting any efforts in learning...
All of which would have been a lot cheaper and easier and reliable had it not been for the aforementioned Billybaba and his cohorts' methods.
I doubt it. The cost of computing was heading up when Microsoft entered the market. It was their self serving deal with IBM that turned costs downward by allowing clones to run the same software that IBM was running at a fraction of the cost.
Philip