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Originally Posted by Spineless
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Originally Posted by Epirali
Technologically and in daily use there have been few companies as impactful as Apple, whether you like their product or use any one of a number of direct rip offs (Windows, Android, modern tablets, modern music players, ultra portable laptops). They also revived or moved forward many manufacturing techniques that are now common (gorilla glass, unibody aluminum laptop frames, high dpi displays).
Tesla: jury is out.
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Wow... the Apple fandom strong in you. But I must correct you on a few things. Of all the things that you credit Apple for, in none of these categories was Apple the first in the market. Windows isn't a rip off on any Apple product. Apple appropriated the idea, like Microsoft did, from Xerox-Parc. Microsoft created the modern tablet market, not Apple. Apple just improved upon it. Modern music players existed before the iPod. Apple just improved upon it. "Ultra" portable laptops have existed before the MacBook Air. Only over time has the definition evolved to what it is today. So for only a couple generations of laptops has Apple held the portability crown. Before that it was Dell, HP, Compaq, IBM, etc.
Gorilla glass was created by Corning, not Apple.
If you look at the history of Apple, they have never actually created a new market. That's not something they have ever proven to be capable of doing. They have only ever improved upon an existing category, which is kind of like being a rip off, as you put it.
The best analogy for Apple is that of BASF. Yea, the company that goes around saying that they don't create the product, they just make it better. That's Apple to a t. |
Yea didn't SONY create the first small portable MP3 player? They just didn't market it well, Apple was just better getting it noticed and marketing the white ear buds.....