Neither Jobs personally nor Apple invented any of those things...
Here's a history lesson for you then. Also, a suggestion to read a little more carefully. I'm mostly talking about Jobs himself, though you do have Apple to thank for the proliferation of the smart phone in America. Not the bull%&$#?@!%&$#?@!%&$#?@!%&$#?@! that Motorola and everyone else had been pedaling while Asia had been enjoying even smarter phones than we have now since the '90s at least.
The Web began life on NeXT.
Regardless of the "black hardware" being a niche within a niche, OpenStep powered the proliferation of large scale web development. And now every Mac is running NeXT software which is and always has been what Linux would like to be on the desktop some day. Only the most unenlightened point at the failure of the black hardware as truly significant. He won and actually accomplished more in the end than simply starting a new company to compete with the company that he founded that fired him.
One could argue that The Web would have been invented on something else. Newsflash, it wasn't. Speculate all you want about woulda-shoulda-coulda.
Pixar started life as a department of Lucasfilm but Lucas didn't see a future in what Ed Catmull and John Lassetter and his crew were doing so they spun off with the help of Jobs who would end up owning 70% of the company initially and then 100% some years later after repeated capital investment to keep it going while they continued developing Photorealistic Renderman, which popularized procedural shading, vastly increased the quality of shading in general, pushing forward the art and science of CGI as a whole. PRman would power not only the first ever feature length animated film but the first ever computer generated image to be widely judged as indistinguishable from a photograph as well as the highest levels of photoreal visual effects for over a decade with virtually no competition.
One of my disappointments with the initial release of OSX was the fact that Photorealistic Renderman was no longer part of the OS like it was on NeXT. On my NeXTStation Turbo Color it was built in and offered a lot of functionality that wasn't found in the SGI, Sun or Mac versions of Renderman. By this time though, I think Pixar was in the black to nearly $5B in cash thanks to the successes of their films distributed by Disney and a single seat of Renderman to every other customer cost roughly twice the pricetag of the most expensive Mac you could buy at the time so they couldn't just go around giving it away anymore like when Jobs was trying to sell "black hardware".
Whatever to the rest of that rubbish you're talking about.
It's all kinds of ironic and funny to me so many Amigans talking trash while "next generation" Amigas are often what one could consider old Mac hardware. I see the Amiga equivalent to Sharia Law is alive and well, hah-hah.
