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The 7 greatest innovations from Apple

Posted by Derik DeLong | Tuesday, April 15, 2008 7:14 AM PT

Forbes For your daily dose of mainstream media Apple love, Forbes has a piece about Apple’s seven greatest innovations. In pictures. Pictures are worth a thousand words. I’ll discount their value by reducing it to a quick list of 7.

  1. OS X: Unix For The Masses
  2. iLife: Lifestyle Computing
  3. iTunes: Digital Media Made Easy
  4. Mac OS: The Graphical User Interface Goes Big Time
  5. Newton: A Computer In Your Pocket
  6. iPhone: The Web In Your Pocket
  7. iPod: Music (and Movies) In Your Pocket

Allow me to say the whole automated slideshow presentation: annoying. Seriously. Of course, you’ll get their explanation text. That is of course if you can read it before it before the page decides to change on you. Reading at your own pace? Feh. Overrated.

On the other hand, each of those devices made an impact, though I would say that Newton was a too early version of the iPhone.

Comments (3)

FYI:
There is a speed setting on the top right.
You can slow it down

Nathan
April 15, 2008
7:21 AM PT

Not they invented all this, but Apple was also first to roll out:
- The color screen
- The laptop form factor we're all used to now (with palmrests and a centered trackball/pad)
- The first laptop with a trackpad
- The CD-ROM
- I could go on and on

Ken
April 15, 2008
8:32 AM PT

No AppleScript?
No plug 'n play hardware?

David
April 15, 2008
5:35 PM PT

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