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Originally Posted by Dave_S
No it was not innovative of them, because we used it in cell phones before the iPod, but we called it a jog dial.
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I honestly do not know: so the jog wheel would let you glide your finger over it to navigate? Vs. making physical clicks with wheel?
Even if so, you could still make the argument (though not as strong, I admit) that using this on a dedicated music player was innovative. They did something that was completely different navigation wise when compared to other music players at the time. Again not talking about inventing the technology.
And if you look at the ipod as a whole (even if the individual parts themselves would not be considered innovated). Form factor, interface, navigation, eventual integration with itunes, I think there is an argument for it being innovative - you need to compare against what else was out there at the time.