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Originally Posted by foghat
The original ipod (and all its iterations) wasn't innovative?
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Of course not it was their version of an MP3 and video player.
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Originally Posted by foghat
Or how about the itunes store - which pretty much single handedly redefined how music (and later movies/tv shows) could be distributed/sold.
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In case I was not clear, it was technological innovation that I was referring to. Marketing innovation is not something that I am much of an expert on, so I leave that for others.
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Originally Posted by foghat
How about the original iphone and the original iOS -
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The orginal iPhone was yet another candy bar phone with a big screen added. It was inevitable, and they lucked out on the timing by a whole lot. IOS is a derivative of the open source Unix Darwin system, so they improved it, apparently quite a lot, but they did not innovate it.
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Originally Posted by foghat
of which without, smart phones (as we know them today) and andriod would quite possibly not even exist today. And almost certainly would not exist with the look and feel we know today.
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No, they might have been a lot better, but the evolution was inevitable. It was helped along by Apple but it was an evolution that would have happened anyway. I remember wishing for some of the things that eventually came to pass way back in the mid 90s. I was not an innovator then either.