Tomorrow's PC = Today's Mac?

[Magnus]

In October 1995, Byte Magazine wrote:

To see tomorrow's PC, look at today's Macintosh. Macs are far from perfect, but they have pioneered many technologies now coming to PCs. Plug and play has been standard since the 1980s, along with reasonably fast and easy-to-use I/O interfaces such as SCSI and the Apple Desk top Bus (ADB). Numerous Macs employ a unified frame buffer/memory architecture, and Power Macs use NSP for some telephony applications. Moreover, the latest Power Macs are the first mainstream computers to discard their legacy I/O bus (in this case, NuBus) in favor of PCI.

Keep this in mind when you read David Pogue's comments after attending Bill Gates' speech at the Consumer Electronics Show CES in Las Vegas:

If I seem to be laying on the "stolen from Apple" language a bit thick, you're darned right. Ordinarily, I'm careful about making accusations like this, because I know I'll get hammered by Apple bashers. But in this case, there's not a shred of doubt: most of the features Microsoft demonstrated last night were pure, unadulterated ripoffs from Mac OS X. I could hear actual whispers of recognition from the audience around me.

Update: Of course, someone was bound to make a spoof video of all of this.