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You list off 3 products that changed the world. And then say “meh” I just don’t understand some people. Apple’s contributions to modern computing, from GUI w

• kstenerud 4y ago
  Yes I forgot airpods, mostly because I don't use headphones, sorry. Webkit is nice but not groundbreaking. Their GUI work isn't much better than the competition, although I do hope SwiftUI goes somewhere... So I listed 3 products (should have been 4 products) that changed the world, but the meh is not for those (they were quite good!). The meh is for a return to 1990s Apple. Most of the existing technologies have largely plateaued and are being pushed ever higher in diminishing return increments (battery life being the final frontier). Without a product visionary, this is where we'll be for awhile.
  • imwillofficial 4y ago
    It is absolutely groundbreaking, so much so that every major browser that the entire population of the planet use, sans Firefox, is based on technology that was born in WebKit. As for the “apple can’t innovate”, I don’t buy it. Apple of the 90s was full of poorly conceived ideas. I see little difference in the “world changing product development velocity” of Apple then and now. I do miss the flavor of old apple though, grey has somehow replaced beige as the “boring color every computer uses”
    • aconst 4y ago
      WebKit which was forked from KHTML. Apple did work, of course, but they did not make that from scratch. I love Apple, been a user since we had a MacPlus at home (then a Mac 2Vi, then a LC3, then PPC7600, then...) but let's not be overzealous.
      • imwillofficial 4y ago
        Have you actually looked at the deltas between KHTML and WebKit? There is a reason WebKit was chosen.