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Eh... I mean Google's entire business model is to essentially rent you out services in exchange for your personal information. Also, I contend that Apple's "in
by ilovecaching 8y ago
Eh... I mean Google's entire business model is to essentially rent you out services in exchange for your personal information.
Also, I contend that Apple's "invention" has been to repackage computing in a premium package. Smart phones, music players, tablets all existed before Steve flashed them on stage, he just made you want to use them by making them sexy and cool, which wasn't that hard, because the early days of computing is about as unsexy as it gets.
- rhacker 8y agoI don't think something like the iphone specifically existed before its debut, but I could be wrong.
- ilovecaching 8y agoYes, check out the LG Prada. It was actually thought at the time that Apple had copied that design. Microsoft also pushed tablets long before Apple ever did. Like I said, Apple repackages things.
- fulafel 8y agoApple was in the tablet game pretty early with the Newton.
- ilovecaching 8y agoGranted the Newton was the predecessor of the ipad, although it was more a PDA like device. The Microsoft tablet was very much an early ipad.
- jshevek 8y agoWhich characteristics do you consider distinctive? I think of capacitive touch with no keyboard, but such phones did exist. Costs for those kinds of screens had been coming down before the iphone launched. It was obvious we'd see more capacitive screen phones before the iphone launch, though Apple certainly accelerated it.
- timcederman 8y agoGesture UI (the audience literally gasped when Steve scrolled through a long list by flinging it, and applauded pinch-to-zoom), and actually using best of class components (except the camera). All the other smartphones then were laggy/poor screen/plastic shells/etc. Their UIs stunk. It was a huge step up with a bunch of key incremental innovations in a single package.
- natch 8y agoExactly. And he said Apple was five years ahead of everyone else, and I think he was right, or it may have even been an understatement, because trying out competing phones years afterward, they were still more clunky than any iPhone.
- natch 8y agoThere was nothing even remotely close to the touch UI Apple created and enabled with multi-touch.