Comment by gertop

A lot of the things you mention aren't things that have been "conveniently forgotten", they're simply things that mean nothing to most people to begin with...

> From shipping a fully certified UNIX with a modern UI

Ignored because nobody cares or wanted it.

> to getting all the music player market and influencing how any music player would be from then on

Anybody born after millennials have only ever known Spotify, they don't know about iTunes and 99c songs. That's like saying Napster has been conveniently forgotten.

> to seamlessly moving between Motorola and Intel and Apple Silicon with the ability to run the older software from a different architecture with Rosetta

That's a remarkable engineering achievement but that's an implementation detail. Backwards compatibility on the desktop was and still is tablesakes.

> to the first modern touch smartphone

Nobody forgot, there's always one of you to remind the class that Apple was first (by your own definition of modern touch smartphone)

> to getting wireless earpods (and pairing) right

They were clearly the first to demonstrate that people did indeed want fully wireless despite HN's objections at the time.

> to designing their own fucking integrated CPU, and even their own broadband chip

That would be impressive if they were a startup. Every trillion dollar tech companies design their own CPUs.

> Even simple things, like making the best touchpad in the market.

I don't know anyone who claims otherwise, and for the longest time they didn't make their own touchpads. So much for being conveniently forgotten.