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What DID Apple innovate? (lemmy.world)
submitted 2 years ago by ElPussyKangaroo@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world
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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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[–] heavyboots@lemmy.ml 12 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (11 children)

Everyone absolutely thought the original click wheel iPod, the iPhone and the iPad were all doomed to fail. Hell, the Apple watch didn't exactly get off to a hot start for that matter.

And back at the beginning, the Mac OS GUI. Yes, Steve Jobs saw the idea of a graphical GUI at Xerox Park, but what his engineers turned out is something completely different. And at the time it was easily as revolutionary as the touchscreen interface of the iPhone.

Actual duds by Apple that I can think of off the top of my head:

  • The Cube
  • The Mac IIcx
  • The Mac IIfx
  • Whatever that ungodly massive Unix box was that they branded as Apple
  • The liquid cooled G5 cheesgrater
[–] 520@kbin.social 10 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (5 children)

Add to the list of duds:

Apple Pippin - a 5th gen games console. 'competed' with PS1, N64 and Sega Saturn. Made the Saturn look like a runaway success by comparison.
Apple Newton - a PDA that sucked balls and was widely mocked.

Whatever that ungodly massive Unix box was that they branded as Apple

You might need to be more specific - all Apple computers have been Unix boxes since OSX 10.0

[–] heavyboots@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 years ago

I had to do some googling, but it looks like it was the Apple Network Server that I'm thinking of.

https://512pixels.net/2012/03/apple-servers/

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