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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] -5 points 11 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (5 children)

INNOVATE not INVENT

wireless charging? i mean magnets in qi2 are apple's idea, also i wonder how current smartphone market would look like without iPhone, would we still have stylus operated resistive screens? i know they weren't the first ones with capacitive touchscreens and finger oriented UI, but whey popularized it, definitely made it mainstream

[–] [email protected] 9 points 11 months ago (4 children)

Nah, Samsung had wireless charging in 2015 with the Galaxy S6, Apple started wireless charging with the iPhone 8 in 2017.

And wireless charging has been around long before that. Even those rechargeable toothbrushes have used it long before smartphones were a thing.

And Microsoft released the Surface Pro with a stylus before any iPad had them and I'm sure you could go much further back for other devices that had them before that.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (2 children)

not wanting to be rude but either I've worded myself poorly or you may have reading comprehension problems, regarding the wireless charging I've meant the magnets they introduced in iPhone 13 (?) became a part of qi2 charging standard, it's an innovation in my book, also the stylus thing, i didn't mean modern ipad or samsung styluses but those pieces of plastic we used with resistive touch screens of PDAs back in the days before iPhone, while you could use your finger, it wasn't precise enough because interface was cursor oriented instead of finger oriented like iOS was

[–] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Not sure what magnets Apple introduced, but the Palm Pre had wireless magnetic charging back around 2010ish.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 11 months ago

Yeah, "I'm ignorant so I'll say something" lol

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