Hard disagree with mouse, GUI, virtual desktops and video calls.
The mouse hasn't changed in 40 years.
Windows 3.1's GUI beat the pants off Apple's.
Virtual desktops - maybe, but I still don't know anyone who uses this and not really sure most people know it exists.
Video calls - No idea what Apple has to do with this space at all unless you mean FaceTime? I don't think that was really a game changer.
Hence me saying: apple "invented" (rather than saying apple invented). People credit apple with inventing all those things. They invented none of them.
Also worth noting - the mouse was invented over 50 years ago and has basically been the same since, the biggest change was consumer devices moving from a ball to a laser. 41 years ago was when apple first released a product with a mouse. From the wikipedia page on the mouse:
> However, the mouse remained relatively obscure until the appearance of the Macintosh 128K (which included an updated version of the single-button[54] Lisa Mouse) in 1984
> Windows 3.1's GUI beat the pants off Apple's.
It's been a really long time since I used Windows 3.1 or System 7, but I'm not seeing it; in what way was Windows better?
I dunno, the Mac Plus was there several years before windows 3.1, and lot more consistent. You must be confused...