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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] 47 points 11 months ago (35 children)

The iPhone. It was revolutionary when it came out.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 11 months ago (10 children)

It literally created the modern smartphone market. The Palm Pilots and Blackberries of the day couldn't compare: the iPhone had a FULL BROWSER. It was insane. The team developing Android saw the iPhone and had a real "holy shit" moment, they had to go back to the drawing board and completely start over in order to compete.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 11 months ago (9 children)

Full browser might be an overstatement. It was still a web full of Flash at that time. And it caused a pretty major limitation on the browser. If there wasn't an app available, you were often SOL. I do think it sped up the demise of Flash on the web considerably.

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

This. Being able to actually open all those sites that used Flash was a big advantage of Android back then.

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

Yeah, Android had that advantage LATER, when they got their shit together. But when the iPhone initially released, it changed the game.

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