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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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[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

The iPod was released in 2001. Back then it was mac only. Creative offered MP3 players with more storage earlier.

The real innovation was pairing it with itunes, allowing you to be able to organise your music collection, convert cds, etc. That and the itunes store a few years later.

The form factor was different though. Large storage, truly portable.

[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago

I mostly agree, but I'd just put the itunes pairing as one of the top 5 innovations (maybe #4), not the main one.

And ah yeah, the Itunes store. The Store, and Job's personal (and surprisingly effective) crusade to bring sanity to the way (and prices) that music were being sold was huge huge.