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.

  • darth_helmet@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    9 months ago

    The graphical user interface.

    They don’t invent it (xerox PARC did), but Apple correctly identified that the user experience of existing computer systems was holding it back from being a thing everyone owns, and made computers a bad fit for many types of work that seem extremely obvious now (digital media creation particularly)

    They did this more or less again with the smartphone: business folks and super nerds were the smartphone market before Apple. Now it’s the average person’s computer.

  • gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    9 months ago

    The insane amounts of vertical integration that they’ve become known for. They can do really interesting and fascinating things with a bunch of very low-level/hardware-oriented optimization that simply isn’t possible unless you have full control of and visibility into ALL the hardware and software that goes into your devices.

  • helenslunch@feddit.nlEnglish
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    9 months ago

    I am not an Apple fan in the slightest but the Apple Watch is in like, it’s 10th generation? And I never see anyone wear any other type of smartwatch. And for good reason, pretty much everything else is garbage.

    • jukey@feddit.deEnglish
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      9 months ago

      If you are into sports and outdoor activities and don’t want to charge your watch every second day Garmin smartwatches are a thing. I know more ppl. owning those than Apple Watches. Oh, and one Person I know using a ‚fossil‘ smart watch. 🤓

    • danque@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      9 months ago

      Is only nice if you also have an iPhone otherwise its basically useless expensive garbage.

      Better look at Huawei, Zepp and Garmin if you want cheaper but equally good garbage. Fitbit is also a nice brand.

      • helenslunch@feddit.nlEnglish
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        9 months ago

        Garmin makes great watches for fitness tracking. Not so much for general use.

        And those Chinesium watches require you to install spyware on your phone before they’ll do anything at all.

        • zzz@feddit.deEnglish
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          9 months ago

          I agree with both of your points.

          I guess let’s hope the PineTime, Pine64’s smartwatch, will become mainstream viable :D