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What's the point here? - There were mp3 files and player long before the first iPod - Before the iPhone there were other smartphones - Before the iPad there
by baxtr 8y ago
What's the point here?
- There were mp3 files and player long before the first iPod
- Before the iPhone there were other smartphones
- Before the iPad there were other tablets
- Don't get me started on the Watch...
Apple was never an Inventor. Everything they've ever created was built around a technology or even products that existed before. Apple "just" gets the user experience right and and builds products that most people find accessible, easy to use, and reliable.
- paulcole 8y agoI'll give you the watch but the iPod isn't an mp3 player, the iPhone isn't a smartphone, and the iPad isn't a tablet. The iPod is THE mp3 player, the iPhone is THE smartphone, and to a lesser extent the iPad is THE tablet. No, Apple didn't invent the concepts but they created the definitive product using those concepts.
- baxtr 8y agoCould not agree more!
- natch 8y agoMulti-touch input was an Apple invention, and it enabled the iPhone and the iPad.
- paulcole 8y agoI think you'll find this isn't true. Invented in the 70s and in-use as early as 1985. But just like everything else, Apple was the game-changing commercial implementation of it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multi-touch https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multi-touch
- natch 8y agoYes multi-touch used in the context of a smartphone, I should have said.