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Just as every good quote eventually gets attributed to Lincoln or Churchill, every PC advance eventually gets attributed to Apple.

xattt 5y ago
Is there a PC manufacturer that does great trackpads?
- deleted 5y ago
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- themadturk 5y ago
  Not Dell (just to establish that going in)
macintux 5y ago
Apple does what most companies won’t: focus on something and place heavy bets on it. I’ve long argued this with those who claim the current smartphone form factor was inevitable. Sure, companies were experimenting with touchscreen smartphones, but none of the major players like Motorola would ever have dared make just one phone and market the heck out of it. If someone like Nokia or Motorola had created the iPhone, it would have been just one of dozens of models, languishing in the corner of carrier retail stores because no one knew what to do with it. Similarly, Apple gets credit for a lot of things not because they invented it (e.g., USB) but because they embraced it, popularized it, and doubled down on it.
- bluedevil2k 5y ago
  Palm? The Treo was their only phone for many years.
  - kergonath 5y ago
    It also had a different form factor, built around the graffiti scribbling thing, and completely reliant on a stylus and resistive screens, which were ok for the time (I loved mine), but were obsoleted overnight by the iPhone. There was also the LG Chocolate (pretty much the only phone with a capacitive screen released before the iPhone), which is a demonstration that “capacitive touchscreen” does not imply “iPhone form factor”.
  - macintux 5y ago
    Palm is definitely the one company that made me hesitate and add the qualifier "major" to my statement.
  - sbuk 5y ago
    Would that be the Treo 270, Treo 180g, Treo 180 or Treo 90 (all released in 2002)?
    - bluedevil2k 5y ago
      90 wasn’t a phone, 180 and 180g were for different carriers if I remember correctly, and the 270 was their new model that replaced the 180.

xattt 5y ago

Is there a PC manufacturer that does great trackpads?

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themadturk 5y ago
Not Dell (just to establish that going in)

macintux 5y ago

Apple does what most companies won’t: focus on something and place heavy bets on it. I’ve long argued this with those who claim the current smartphone form factor was inevitable. Sure, companies were experimenting with touchscreen smartphones, but none of the major players like Motorola would ever have dared make just one phone and market the heck out of it. If someone like Nokia or Motorola had created the iPhone, it would have been just one of dozens of models, languishing in the corner of carrier retail stores because no one knew what to do with it. Similarly, Apple gets credit for a lot of things not because they invented it (e.g., USB) but because they embraced it, popularized it, and doubled down on it.

bluedevil2k 5y ago
Palm? The Treo was their only phone for many years.
- kergonath 5y ago
  It also had a different form factor, built around the graffiti scribbling thing, and completely reliant on a stylus and resistive screens, which were ok for the time (I loved mine), but were obsoleted overnight by the iPhone. There was also the LG Chocolate (pretty much the only phone with a capacitive screen released before the iPhone), which is a demonstration that “capacitive touchscreen” does not imply “iPhone form factor”.
- macintux 5y ago
  Palm is definitely the one company that made me hesitate and add the qualifier "major" to my statement.
- sbuk 5y ago
  Would that be the Treo 270, Treo 180g, Treo 180 or Treo 90 (all released in 2002)?
  - bluedevil2k 5y ago
    90 wasn’t a phone, 180 and 180g were for different carriers if I remember correctly, and the 270 was their new model that replaced the 180.