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Norway data from statcounter doesn't seem reliable. In just 4 months, July->October 2024, there's a 14% upswing in iphone total marketshare. Which implies that at least 14% of user…

You can see USB ports in computer adverstised in the magazine I linked. Laptops and desktops alike. A majority of PC chipsets had support for it since at least Aug97: https://www.a…

You didn't bother to check an easy source. Another one: USB support was standard in chipsets for Intel and AMD chips. Aug97 link: https://www.anandtech.com/show/72

Windows 95 OSR2 got official USB support in Aug97.

The change to USB was on the move already much before the iMac launches. Just check magazines since the end of 97, there are reviews of products before the launch. The iMac rode th…

Check my other comment for data and arguments. USB was already pretty much standard in new PCs and all kind of peripherals were available many months before iMac release. By the ti…

I'm not sidestepping it. My point was of mass market adoption and innovation. I remember testing the original iMac at a computer trade fair back in it's day, and I was not impresse…

USB ports not only existed, but were standard in new PCs. A quick search shows peripherals and monitors with USB hubs in PC World May-1998 (4/5 months before iMac launch). From tha…

I pretty much see adoption of technology as innovation. Not technical innovation for sure, but innovation in the sense of significant improvement over other solutions. Don't you co…

> The iMac gets remembered for a lot of things, and rightly so, but it doesn’t get enough credit for essentially kick-starting the USB revolution That's not true. USB ports were al…

Not an original PC game, but the PC port of Caveman Ninja, VGA and also from 1991, was amazing. Smooth parallax scroll with tons of sprites in screen. It recently got a remake on S…

I remember playing that game in CGA (and speaker) back in the day. Fond memories :)