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What DID Apple innovate? (lemmy.world)
submitted 1 year 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] 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

They’ve also excelled at seamless integration across devices. I can start an iMessage conversation on my iPhone, switch to my laptop for a while, then to my iPad.

Same thing with phone calls. If my phone is on the other side of the house and starts ringing, then both my laptop and iPad ring as well. I can grab whichever device is closest and answer the call on it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Seamless integration has been around since the first real-time chatrooms though. Again, just making a better UI

For phone calls that's just VoIP which was around waaaaayyy before the iPhone, Skype was doing something similar in the consumer geek market in 2004/5. They just brought it to the big consumer market, and again, made it 1000x easier to do.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This is something that can easily be done on Windows and Linux also, its just not an out of the box setup like Mac

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

It's pretty out of the box now with windows and android. You have to link the two but then it just works (I don't find it a useful feature though)