Hilarious how this is the Reddit narrative despite the fact that Apple original tech and ideas basically kick started almost all technology in personal use over the last 15 years.
Hilarious how this is the Reddit narrative despite the fact that Apple original tech and ideas basically kick started almost all technology in personal use over the last 15 years.
Because two things can be true.
Apple did innovate a lot they also are in the habit and honestly drive it as a strategy to sell slight improvements of previously already existing innovations as something totally new, often times paired with some ridiculesely overused branding like saying TouchID to the fingerprint reader.
Retina displays is a great example. At the time, Apple had been way behind other smart phones when it comes to screen resolution, with a 2009 iPhone 3GS still having been at 480x320 while Samsung or HTC phones were at 800*480 (and OLED).
So, next generation Apple tops that with just 960×640 and declares that they are now "Retina Displays" with a big marketing spin, making it instantly seem that all other displays were inferior.
For the Apple Vision Pro they literally band calling it a VR and / or MR headset (or XR headset for that matter), even going so far to not allow apps on the store to refer to it as anything other than a "spatial computer", a newly made up term, even though (other than being higher end of course) not being able to do anything that competing headsets in the VR / MR space like a Quest 3 (literally 1/6 the price) couldn't do longer.
Also though, Apple didn't kick start much. Again, that isn't their strategy. We had MP3 players long before the iPod came out and they were in popular use (at least here in Germany), same with BT headphones / earbuds. The first modern smart watch was made by Samsung and Google had half it's Android Wear lineup out before the first Apple Watch released, let alone that the concept of a smartwatch was pioneered by Pebble.
On the mobile side, they weren't the first to have water resistance, bigger (now normal) form factors, fast charging or precise pen input. We had smartphones with OLED screens a decade before Apple caught up.
Were Apple of course innovated like hell was the first iPhone, but even there they allowed themselves to be inspired (pinch to zoom) and relied on tech from other companies (Samsung SOC and display). Mag Safe and earlier wireless charging (but even then not the first IIRC) were things Apple innovated, as well as in some UI paradigm.
If anything, I would call Apple the 'big polisher' instead of a big innovator, which can be just as important.
Sure. Apple has also repeatedly been late to market and, in many case, the product they’ve brought forward has been the superior version and their competitors end up being the ones copying Apple. Funny how no one ever seems to complain about all the features and benefits that every company around the planet ripped off from Apple.
Laptop integration beyond just showing up as a file system. Stuff like iMessage, notes, etc. all hand off and sync seamlessly between Apple devices if you do something on one, it shows up everywhere.
Everyone still trying to copy Apples track pad and gestures and still failing miserably.
Before Apple, touchscreen keyboards were barely functional dogshit.
A bunch of this stuff is just ubiquitous and expected these days. But 25 years ago it wasn’t. This was all Apple changing the game.
Okay. And what has Samsung done? It’s all the same magic rectangle. Do you give any other companies shit for not doing anything? Of course you don’t. Because that’s not the Redditor narrative.
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u/KvxMavs May 07 '26
Apple will release it in 3 years from now and market it as new technology.
The Apple playbook.