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.

  • masterspace@lemmy.ca
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    11 months ago

    Them building a smartphone around a capacitive touchscreen with a software keyboard was the primary innovation of the iPhone.

    A full browser that rendered webpages is not an innovation, that’s a result of increased processing power letting them port more browser code over. Pinch to zoom interfacing on a browser might be an innovation, but a web browser on a mobile phone was not innovative, just iterative.

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      11 months ago

      All the browsers were complete shit though. That was iterative but it felt huge.

      Imma let y’all finish but the Palm Pre was the GOAT

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        11 months ago

        I miss webOS dearly. I still have my HP TouchPad. It could put apps in the background and pick up like nothing happened from a recents screen in 2009. IIRC iOS wouldn’t follow suit until 4 years later.