Genuine question.

I know they were the scrappy startup doing different cool things. But, what are the most major innovative things that they introduced, improved or just implemented that either revolutionized, improved or spurred change?

I am aware of the possibility of both fanboys and haters just duking it out below. But there’s always that one guy who has a fkn well-formatted paragraph of gold. I await that guy.

  • danielfgom@lemmy.worldEnglish
    486·
    1 year ago

    If you define innovate as invent something from scratch, then they did not innovate anything. Everything they’ve done has existed prior to them doing it. But under Steve they took those inventions and made them more usable and appealing to the common man.

    That’s their strength really. Make stuff easier and more enjoyable to use.

    Unfortunately that has led to lock-in in order to hold onto customers. Yes, they give you convenience but you’re bound to their products.

    I first realised this when I had an Apple Watch and iPhone 7, then sold my iPhone and got an Android phone and the Watch became useless. Even though I had 3 Mac’s and an iPad Pro, they couldn’t work with Watch. You HAD to have an iPhone.

    So I sold the Watch.

    Then I paved over MacOS with Linux and I’m happy. Free to use whatever, whenever, however I want to, and added YEARS to the life of my mac’s which both had come to the end of support of MacOS.

    My 2015 MacBook Pro and 2012 Mac Mini would be useless now if I was running OSX/MacOS and many apps wouldn’t be supported or even work. New apps definitely wouldn’t be supported because Mac Devs love to drop support for older versions.

    On Linux they run great! Fast, fluid, can run any latest app no problem. I think Linux has probably added at least 10 years into the life of these machines.

    • Veddit@lemmy.worldEnglish
      6·
      1 year ago

      I had never thought of wiping an old mac and putting Linux on it to give it a new life. That’s a great idea! Thank you.

      • DJDarren@thelemmy.clubEnglish
        3·
        1 year ago

        Depending on the Mac, you could use OCLP to put a more up to date macOS on it. My work Mac is a 2014 mini that’s running Ventura like a champ, despite Apple’s protestations that it’s only capable of running Monterey. I have had Sonoma running on it, but the install corrupted and I haven’t gotten around to sorting it out.

    • ferralcat@monyet.ccEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      “it just works” always struck me as such an odd adage for apple because so many things don’t work on their platforms.

      • bamboo@lemm.eeEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        For the common folks who use all Apple stuff, it’s largely true. Messaging, email, web browsing, office tasks, media consumption, all works as well as it could. It’s not as true for some more enthusiast tasks, but that’s not necessarily the core demographic Apple is after and it’s definitely not where the profits are.

      • danielfgom@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        Linux Mint Debian Edition. But if you install Ubuntu or a distro with the latest gnome, you’ll get all the Mac trackpad gestures as well. Cinnamon doesn’t support that yet

    • set_secret@lemmy.worldEnglish
      115·
      1 year ago

      interesting, i find generally woman are more into apple products (or at least equally) in my experience. Does the data indeed show that only men found Apple products appealing at first or something?

      • danielfgom@lemmy.worldEnglish
        32·
        1 year ago

        No idea buddy. I think men lean towards tech more than women, generally, so men tend to be early adopters

        • set_secret@lemmy.worldEnglish
          13·
          1 year ago

          You wrote “Steve they took those inventions and made them more usable and appealing to the common man.” I assume you had data to back up the male orientation? Which is why i asked. I mean you’d have said “common people” if you were referring to all humans i assume?