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What DID Apple innovate? (lemmy.world)
submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Genuine question.

I know they were the scrappy startup doing different cool things. But, what are the most major innovative things that they introduced, improved or just implemented that either revolutionized, improved or spurred change?

I am aware of the possibility of both fanboys and haters just duking it out below. But there's always that one guy who has a fkn well-formatted paragraph of gold. I await that guy.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 11 months ago (1 children)

High resolution displays on laptops, SSDs in laptops.

Those are the two I can think of right now. I believe Linus (LTT) talked about this on WAN show not too long ago aswell.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 11 months ago (2 children)

It's crazy to think that the original MacBook Air had a spinning hdd, which was 1.8".

[–] [email protected] 11 points 11 months ago (1 children)

It came from the iPods at the time.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago (1 children)

It’s crazy to think that the portable, pocket really, music player had HDD.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

The Nokia N91 from 2006 also had an HDD. I assume it was the same Toshiba one that Apple used in the iPod Minis.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

Every now and then I remember this, and ponder the feasibility of flash-modding a 1st gen Air with an iPod’s mod kit. Just casually rock 1tb of flash storage in that bad boy.

But they’re still too pricey to be a fuck about project, and beyond that they kinda suck.