But no one else has X

While Apple products have failed on the market many times, with the Newton handheld device as a prime example, others have picked up on Apple’s ideas and turned them into PC standards

Check out this pretty decent article on how Apple gave PC-peeps all the shit they take for granted. This is why Apple will never go away, and if they did, why the PC hardware and software makers alike would be doing heroin to fight off the pain of having to come up with their own ideas.