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>[Steve Jobs] was a genius who essentially invented new product categories What product categories did Steve/Apple invent? All of their major breakthroughs (i
by DINKDINK 10y ago
>[Steve Jobs] was a genius who essentially invented new product categories
What product categories did Steve/Apple invent? All of their major breakthroughs (iPod, iPhone, iPad) were already existing product categories but Apple just made them right / what customers wanted. Correct me if I'm wrong.
- pm24601 10y agoI would vote for mobile internet. Yes, Blackberry had a smart(ish) phone. But it was really just a mobile email phone. Apple was the first phone manufacturer to provide a full featured, no compromises mobile internet browsing experience. I would then add the whole mobile app store concept. Blackberry's version was really nothing much.
- tunap 10y agoNah, he borrowed/stole this too from others(his words, JFGI:artists+borrow+steal+jobs). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_tablet#Early_devices https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_tablet#Early_devices
- jimbokun 10y agoThat's just semantics. "Made them right / what customers wanted" covers so much ground for those products, it's fair to say they were first in a new category of product. For example, "smart phone" means "phone that works like an iPhone", more or less.