Quite the contrary. Apple has delusions of grandeur if it thinks it can change an entire industry with a less than 10% market share.
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But they do. They removed optical drives and RJ45 jacks from their laptops. Most new laptops don't have these anymore.
Some competing models already just have USB Type C ports.
And the original iMac, which dropped all the old printer/keyboard/mouse/serial/SCSI/whatever connectors in favor of USB and FireWire.
Psssh, USB. Like that'll ever catch on... And Apple was a tiiiiny fraction of the market then compared to what they are now.
Anybody remember all the PS/2 to USB dongles? We got over it.
Optical drives didn't go extinct because Apple removed them, but because USB sticks were much more useful. RJ45 went extinct because everyone uses Wifi.
In both cases Apple didn't set a trend, it was inevitable.
But a USB-A mouse works perfectly, just like a wired headphone. There is not a clear advantage here.
Other manufacturers dropped them not because of apple though but because they were no longer needed.