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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] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Creative Labs and others were doing MP3 players before them.

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

dankpods

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah but they weren’t very good. iPod was the first one with a high speed connection, hard drive, practical means of scrolling through hundreds of songs, desktop software for synchronization. It was a pretty huge improvement.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

...but it was still an incremental step over what already existed. Apple's whole thing is to improve what already exists, and pretend like they invented it.

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

They didn’t pretend they invented the MP3 player. Steve Jobs slagged the existing ones when he announced the iPod. He just said they were badly designed and he was right.