>Apple steals an idea that never took off (home PC, portable

>>59887928
Who cares? No idea is every truly original. Get over it

Well they also made the Newton thing and that kinda didn't take off.

>smartphone
Also smartphones were plenty popular before Apple, they just changed the market (they used to be fancy phones with multimedia capabilities or business-oriented capabilities where you could install applications, then they became "mini PC:s" when iOS and Android became more capable)

Anyway, I'm, doubtful whether they'll be able to pull another one. It has been a while.

>>59887961
/thread

>>59888053
And what was the big change Apple made to smartphones? Basically the touch screen, really. You no longer had to choose between a number keyboard (shit for computing, the phones were usually oriented at multimedia stuff) or a QWERTY (big phones, usually very business-oriented to the point of being shitty even as MP3 players)

>>59888092
Not the touchscreen, the multitouch capacitive touchscreen. Smartphones had touchscreens for years before the iPhone.

>>59888092
And it wasn't the first touch screen phone, either. But the old ones were usually resistive + stylus and had a very awkward OS, usually, more fit for pure PDA tasks than phone'ing.

They just made mobile phone computing a lot more user-friendly.

The big change was the app store.

>>59887928
I use devices that work well for some purpose I need. I don't give a shit about "originality".

>>59888111
btw, anyone remember how when the iPhone first came out, it was actually arguably not a smartphone at that point

it did not have app capability at launch and that used to be the defining point: can you install dedicated apps made specifically for the OS?

Stealing is not the same thing as innovating.

>>59888092
they merged the ipod with the smartphone

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>>59887928
>the only exception is the smartwatch

>>59888163
>idea that never took off

>>59888196
>implying disc-based consoles had already taken off at the time

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>>59887928
>the only exception is the smartwatch
Not really.

>>59888230
>implying consoles hadn't already taken off years before it

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>>59888230
>PIPPIN was released in 1995
>Sony Playstation was released in 1994

>>59887928
>idea that never took off
>home PC, portable digital music player
This is what itoddlers actually believe.