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Genuine question.

I know they were the scrappy startup doing different cool things. But, what are the most major innovative things that they introduced, improved or just implemented that either revolutionized, improved or spurred change?

I am aware of the possibility of both fanboys and haters just duking it out below. But there's always that one guy who has a fkn well-formatted paragraph of gold. I await that guy.

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[–] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

iPod. It was the first commercially available MP3 player that sported more than 512mb of storage. First model was 5GB. Second was 10GB.

I got in on the second model, as a Windows PC user. I had to buy a FireWire expansion card just to use it.

Literally nothing else was like it, and at the time, you could leave it on the seat of your car while you went shopping because that far back, nobody knew what the fuck it was and so would leave it alone.

They didn't create the first MP3 player, but they created the first massively commercially successful one.

Through this, they also pioneered the first digital storefront for music which in itself was a fucking feat considering there is already a music company named Apple. They threaded the fucking needle with that one. They had trademark disputes with Apple Corps (holding company for music by The Beatles) going back to the 1970's but put that all to bed with the release of the iTunes store.

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[–] White_Flight@lemmy.world 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)

High prices for people that have way too much money

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[–] pewgar_seemsimandroid@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 11 months ago (2 children)
[–] wewbull@feddit.uk 4 points 11 months ago (4 children)

Creative Labs and others were doing MP3 players before them.

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[–] DrSleepless@lemmy.world 5 points 11 months ago

They just took other innovations and put them in a nicer package

[–] AzureRT@reddthat.com 4 points 11 months ago (3 children)

You can consider this comment stupid but I found the action button pretty cool while I was toying with the iPhone 15s at a T-Mobile recently

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[–] nix@merv.news 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)
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[–] jordanlund@lemmy.world 4 points 11 months ago (8 children)

They took the GUI that Xerox invented and made it so ubiquitous that other companies copied it from them (GEOS, Windows, Amiga, etc. etc.)

They took the Bubble UI that Palm invented, and the PalmOS driven Handspring cell phones, and turned it into a full blown mobile operating system.

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[–] originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com 3 points 11 months ago

they invented the hardware-based walled garden. an entire ecosystem of shit relying on them alone

[–] chitak166@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

They have a really nice user-interface. I suppose being user-friendly and accessible can be considered innovative, but that's only when talking to idiots who don't see the immediate value in such things.

That's it.

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