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[Opinion] Apple CEO Tim Cook's Legacy Is Dull Products And Spineless Capitulation (karlbode.com)
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[–] 1 point 6 hours ago (1 child)

And the apple mac, the iMac, iPod, and the iPad, and cofounding apple. Even the concept of iLife and the market targetting strategy. Yes, innovator.

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  • [–] 5 points 6 hours ago (1 child)

    The Apple Macintosh wasn't innovative. Here's how you "innovate" an Apple Mac: Take an existing product of your company, the Apple IIGS. Make that worse by reducing the processor clock speed so your new product will be superior in some way, because your new product is going to lack backwards compatibility, internal expansion card slots, color graphics or multi-channel audio.

    The iMac wasn't innovative. It was an evolution of their existing product line in trendy packaging.

    The iPod wasn't innovative. Even the UI was taken from Creative. Rio beat them to the market by several years.

    The iPad wasn't innovative. I was handed a Dell tablet PC a full decade before the iPad hit the market.

    Apple was innovative twice in its very long history: The Apple II was the first microcomputer that combined color graphics with internal expandability, and the iPhone had a capacitive touch screen. The most innovative thing Steve Jobs ever said in his life was "You can just use your finger."

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  • [–] 1 point 3 hours ago

    The Apple II was the first microcomputer that combined color graphics with internal expandability

    The first computer I ever used (not counting punch cards or the VIC-20) was an Apple IIe, and I can confidently say that color was green. Later versions of the Apple II had full color, but that wasn't "innovation" by Steve Jobs, it was just the technology for it becoming affordable.

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