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Anon is smarter than a genius (sh.itjust.works)

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[–] SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca 3 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

Yeah computers were doubling in speed every 18 months back then. And there were competing products oftentimes years before Apple put out their version. Apple primarily put a lot of polish onto the technological innovations that were happening at the time.

Don't get me wrong polish is really important. Apple didn't invent the MP3 player or the smartphone. But the MP3 players before the iPod were really fiddley and janky. BlackBerries had a downright primitive look and feel next to an iPhone.

Also marketing... a lot of people didn't know MP3 players existed until they saw advertisements for the iPod.

[–] easily3667@lemmus.org 1 points 3 hours ago

I mean jobs hated the palm pilot and complained what a piece of shit it was, and then just forced people to make a better one.