pendatic. His point was that YC's expertise with advising startups comes from doing YC, not from selling Viaweb to Yahoo (it was, but only at first)--just as Apple's expertise doing the iPhone came from doing the iPhone, not from making computers (it was, but only at first). Whether Apple made the first computer or not is irrelevant to the point he was trying to make.
How is that a minor detail? The first electronic computer was built in 1946. Apple hasn't even existed for half of the time electronic computers have existed on Earth.
Seriously folks, this is some dumb, dumb stuff. Even the senator who gave the infamous "tubes" speech probably knew that the Apple didn't invent computers.
