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How is Apple innovative?
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There is no doubt that they, probably not invented, but perfected, the marketing to sell something not new as new.
And I think that is OK, sometimes it takes a little push to like something.
But sometimes that push is too much and we like terrible products. iPod is one of those. Can't be used as just a file store and must use that terrible iTunes software. Before I used my HTC as MP3, I can just make a directory for music, make a directory structure to my taste, upload files, and listen. iTunes simply sux and makes a good idea bad.
And I say WTF cares as long as they release products people want to buy. I love my iPhone and iPad. I could really give a crap less whether its considered innovative or not.
Read my post #72. It's the package, presentation, delivery and style of use of what already existed that gave Apple the innovator brand. Besides the fact the Apple ran with it and made it part of their marketing.
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That's how the world actually looks. Our brain just corrects what we see. Apple got it right.
They were innovative when they first game out. iTunes is a joke now, just bloatware, nothing innovative about it anymore.
the iPod is basically dead.
the iPhone didn't really innovate until the 3GS. That is hitting it's peak now.
The air other than being thin was not innovative as it stripped the functionality. It was a innovative design but not function.
Wrong.
iPod is not dead. All it's functionality is simply being integrated into the smartphones. It's simply being assimilated into a similar device (a smartphone). Hence, one can think of an iPhone as a smartphone, but can also act like an iPod. It's a Borg-like assimilation, in a convenient way.
Stripping that functionality (drive) has now spread across the whole line up. iMac, Retina MacBook Pro, Mac Mini.
They are pushing digital content which is where everything is going to go.
Don't tell me you cried when Steve Jobs introduced the first iMacs without floppy drives. Because in doing so, Apple did it first and therefore proved its ability to see into the future, then a couple years later, the ME-TOO copycat PC industry followed Apple's lead.
Within a few short years, people stopped using floppies as a storage medium. Apple is often, not always, but a lot of times right in doing things way ahead of its time, and way ahead of its rivals. The skeptics and naysayers eat crow later.
Oh, by the way... Flash is nearly dead. No longer supported on Android (Jelly Bean). Steve predicted that one too.
I could go on and on with examples....
Don't tell me you cried when Steve Jobs introduced the first iMacs without floppy drives. Because in doing so, Apple did it first and therefore proved its ability to see into the future, then a couple years later, the ME-TOO copycat PC industry followed Apple's lead.
No one followed Apple's lead. The floppy was already on a decline, and the PC industry stopped when the support just didn't make sense anymore. Like the PC industry drops legacy ports/technologies all the time.
It's just time moving forward. Especially back in those years (late 90s, early 00s), no one gave a crap what Apple was doing.
Oh, by the way... Flash is nearly dead. No longer supported on Android (Jelly Bean). Steve predicted that one too.
"People don't want to watch video on a 2" screen" - iPod Video
"People just don't read anymore" - iBookStore
"10 inch is the minimum size to make great tablet apps" - iPad Mini
Steve said a lot of crap. Sometimes he was right, sometimes he was wrong.
There's one area nobody's mentioned - retail.
If there's one area where Apple is most innovative, it's in the retail sector. In the design of their stores, the profit levels per square foot, and creating a retail "experience" that nobody else has managed.
How many people go to PC World to hang out? Or to best buy for training. Go to any shopping mall, and I guarantee the busiest store will be the Apple store. All sales staff use mobile tills which fit in their pockets, and you can actually grab a product, pay for it on your phone, and walk out - that, in my eyes, is innovation (compared to the current "self service checkouts??)
If there's one area where Apple is most innovative, it's in the retail sector. In the design of their stores, the profit levels per square foot, and creating a retail "experience" that nobody else has managed.
How many people go to PC World to hang out? Or to best buy for training. Go to any shopping mall, and I guarantee the busiest store will be the Apple store. All sales staff use mobile tills which fit in their pockets, and you can actually grab a product, pay for it on your phone, and walk out - that, in my eyes, is innovation (compared to the current "self service checkouts??)
i do have to say their stores changed a lot and those new windows store laugh in comparison. windows never EVER had some 1 on 1 training option for 99bucks like apple does for peoples lolparents. and now microsoft has it up on the site to make the appointments like apple does. lol but other then schemeing im not really seeing anything at all ! no awesome design changes just enlarge \ shrink and resize their whole product line haha
Samsung announced their version of Passbook today, called Wallet. There's a quote in The Verge's writeup that reminded me of this thread.
http://www.theverge.com/2013/2/27/4035064/samsung-wallet-app-apple-passbook-features