Comment on What DID Apple innovate?
Centillionaire@kbin.social 9 months ago
Nobody has mentioned the scroll circle thing on the iPod. Not sure if you’ve ever used one, but that made it so much faster to navigate.
Also, Apple started the touchscreen phones revolution.
I don’t know about the iPad things because I’m not interested in the tablet format in general.
But touchscreens were already a thing before the iPhone. Apple just took them, polished the UI a bit and used their already influential position with iMac and iPods to commercialise the product.
I always thought that was one of the dumbest things about an iPod.
Would’ve much preferred to just have simple buttons.
Xatolos@reddthat.com 9 months ago
Issue is, the scroll circle was a copy of the Braun T3 Pocket Radio made in 1953.
And Apple didn’t start the touchscreen phone revolution. That goes to companies like LG (LG Prada, was was publicly displayed in Sept 2006) and others. Everyone always forgets that Apples first attempt at a phone was the [iTunes Motorola Rokr](i.guim.co.uk/img/media/…/2616.jpg?w=300&q=55&auto…), and Apple had to watch other companies move the touchscreen phone forward and then copy them.
ferralcat@monyet.cc 9 months ago
I had a Sony laptop for awhile where you could draw a circle on the touchpad to infinitely scroll/scrub forward and back (if you started your drag on the far right edge). It was kinda amazing once you got down how to do it.
But scrubbers were around way before apple made theirs.