Apple is lo-tech(made in china) over-hyped over-priced well-marketed self-proclaimed the most innovative company in the world
but the truth is something else:

Macintosh did not make the 1st desktop, they made the 1st commercialy succesful personal computer that used a GUI and not the command line interface (there were commercially succesful computers before this that used only the command line)(t...he real 1st personal computer was made by IBM in 1971 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HP_9830 , 1st mac was built in 1984 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macintosh ) the 1st portable computer was also made by IBM, the IBM5100 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_5100 the 1st smartphone was also made by IBM in 1992 However the 1st phone to be marketed as a "smartphone" was made by Nokia. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smartphone The 1st commercially available mp3 player was the Audio Highway ListenUp in 1996 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portable_media_player