Apple never tried to get rid of USB with Firewire.
They did, they failed, and like so many of their failures the loyalists just try to pretend it never happened.
If Newton is the best flop you can come up with, then you haven't been paying attention.
No, I don't waste my time following every single Apple product ever released, why? do you?
Don't worry, that's purely rhetorical.
iPhones don't come in pink, and there's more to life than having the #1 market share. Notice I don't make predictions about Android success, but Apple haters love to make predictions (incorrect ones at that) about Apple.
iPhones do not, at least not yet, but eMacs did in the most garish colors imaginable. They initiated a fad that the Apple loyalists loved to praise as the final nail in the coffin of the "ugly, brown box", only to die a quick, merciful death a few years later. Just as the "haters" predicted, huh, who would've thought.
The one button mouse argument wasn't very good in 1995, let alone at any time during the 2000s. I've had a multiple button mouse ever since OS 7 or so.
Good for you, but I practically grew up with Apple idiots calling more than one button "too complicated for non-geeks to use". Until Apple released its own, official model and finally, *FINALLY*, the loyalists... admitted they were wrong? hell no, they just stopped talking about it and started bringing up some obscure third-party accessory produced for a year in the '90s to "prove" how Apple had always been in support of multi-button mice and we'd always been at war with Eurasia.
Apple didn't become the most valuable tech company in the world with pink iPhones and one-button mice, regardless of how you might want to think that true.
No, it became so the same way Scientology gained such momentum: a personality cult built around their leader, a massive propaganda campaign to make their members look part of a "distinguished elite" merely for being members, and the insane profits that come from selling new trash to your followers every month.
Face it, the zealots love to parade things like CmdrTaco's infamous comment on the iPod as "proof" of how "haters" always get it wrong but the fact is, they get it wrong just as often as they get it completely right, Steve Jobs isn't a divine, flawless being that can make no mistake and every word of his mouth is the absolute truth, and just because it's got an Apple logo doesn't mean it's the golden standard which all competing products must be measured against.
Still, fat chance of you ever admitting *that*, you're way too invested into the company (both emotionally as well as economically, judging from your initial post) to admit any flaw in your reasoning. Psychology is a bitch, isn't it?