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Originally Posted by MovieBird
You mean MP3 players did not exist before the iPod? What about all the Creative products? The Nomad II even had a wheel similar to what the iPod ended up with. I can't find a ship date for it, but there's an Epionions review for it several months before the iPod debuted. Also, the manual is copyright 1999. But if you mean the actual capacitive touch of the wheel, well, Apple didn't invent that. Synaptics did.
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We are talking about Innovation, not invention. Two very different ideas. Lol at the nomad wheel. Sure they are both round and you can pause/play with them. The click wheel's innovation came in the way you could glide your finger around it to navigate your music.
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Originally Posted by MovieBird
As far as iTunes, it's very nicely integrated. However, you could purchase digital music before iTunes, just not all in one place. If you wanted a single source for music, Napster or Kazaa were always available.
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Again invent vs. innovate.
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Originally Posted by MovieBird
The iPhone was not the first phone to have touch, or even apps. They were the first to tie into a proprietary sales channel so nicely, however. To wit, the Nokia 60 series had downloadable apps. Hell, Nokia even had the iTunes idea back in 2004, but management didn't buy off link. Symbian was also amazingly iOS like, before iOS.
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invent <> innovate. Having an idea is a great start, but if you don't do anything with it, you can't be considered innovative.
Again I cannot believe people are trying to say the original iphone was not innovative, but that now android phone manufacturers are being innovative.