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What DID Apple innovate? (lemmy.world)
submitted 10 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] 56 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Polish.

It useless to be first if that product isn’t reliable, sustainable, practical. Apple adds polish to other concepts to make them usable by the vast majority of people.

Laptops existed…..with weird keyboard layouts and mice that were afterthoughts. PowerBook pioneered the keyboard forward design that every laptop now has.

Smartphones existed……incredibly limited, weird UI, awkward input, targeted at businesses instead of regular people. iPhone changed everything so much that every other design died.

Collecting different innovations and figuring how to combine them in a way that is practical and sellable is their continuous innovation.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

I'm sorry but this is kind of horseshit. Apple has legitimately brought some new polish to areas that hadn't seen them before, but LMFAO at Apple inventing laptops that don't have weird keyboards.

Apple had great trackpads with multi finger gesture support before anyone else, their keyboards have been nothing special compared to ThinkPads and business grade laptops that sold for the same price as them. Their difference was marketing and convincing consumers to pay business grade prices for consumer laptops.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

LMFAO at Apple inventing laptops that don’t have weird keyboards

They weren't saying the keyboards themselves were particularly good, they were saying Apple's keyboard placement was a step forward (and it was). This page has a couple of pictures of early laptops - note where the Powerbook keyboard is compared to the others.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

No kidding huh. The fanboys are rewriting history as if only Apple can figure out a laptop.