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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] 12 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Also standardizing hardware. Part of the iPhones success was that developers had to develop for A phone, singular. There were a lot of cool palm programs and whatnot, but having a single hardware set to bug-smash had to be a big part of making the app-market go into hyper drive.

I don't own a single apple product, but credit where credit is due.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

Not only for iPhone, but for Mac as well. It's easy to install bsd on a machine when you have access to the best hw engineers and documenters on the planet.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Ahh, no. The window where existed only one iPhone and you could develop for it was very narrow. And then you need not only develop for different hardware, but software as well. Yes, different versions of iOS are different. Source: developers for mobile for three years.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Isn't the problem now just different screen sizes? I thought that, other than that, everything is easily portable from between different iphones, ipads and whatnot

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

And the iPhone screen size didn’t change until the App Store had been around for 4 years, during which time it became huge. I am not sure why this person is trying to discount what you’re saying.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 10 months ago

Screen sizes, presence and size of notches, and available APIs between OS versions.