[citation][nom]amk-aka-phantom[/nom]Who cares what was made a long time ago?! That was then, this is now. Look at what is happening TODAY. And what's happening today is that Apple sells tons of re-invented tech to brainwashed clueless zombies. (Some Mac users are actually smart people and have clear reasons to use a Mac, but these are rare and even they hate other Apple stuff - iPhone and such). I can second everything that's been written above about how Apple's ideas are not innovative. mp3 players were around since... was it around 2001? - and they were doing just fine before Apple "re-invented" them by adding a useless touch wheel to control the device and a screen to break your eyes by watching movies on it (watch movies on small screen = messingup your eyes). PDAs were there long before the iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad, and they were basically touch-screen devices with their own OS, phone functionality and could do pretty much everything (if not more) what modern tablets and smartphones can do. Except the hardware was weaker at that time - but that was 6-8 years back and at that time having a 400 MHz CPU in your PDA was considered mighty =) They were good devices, but were phased out by new touch smartphones. It was probably for the best, because Windows Mobile pissed a lot of people off, but don't you dare say that Apple invented anything in that area. Re-thought, marketed, brainwashed, but NOT invented. Enough said.[/citation]
Umm.. Most people I have ever seen that use/have a mac love other Apple stuff.. And that's understandable when all of their products have the exact same "feel"... So I'm not sure who you've seen.. I'd think your experience is more of the exception than the rule..
But absolutely.. I would agree that they really haven't invented anything new.. Something that has never existed on the planet before.. However, bar none, their "re-thought, marketed, and brainwashed" products have been more successful than anything before. There were mp3 players.. And quite obviously, Apple made something that more people wanted, obviously.. And whether that is through just shear design, marketing, or demonic underhanded deals (>.>) it is still an amazing accomplishment. I had mp3 players before the iPod, and while they were definitely doing fine.. once i used an iPod.., wow.. I wouldn't go back to what I had before.. just miserable using them.. And I've tried a few recently for running, swimming, etc, and I just don't like the way they "feel". (messes up eyes? any sources? Not cynid, just curious.. sounds like made up urban legends like the sitting too close to the tv myth..)
And as for the PDA's 6-8 years ago.. When I had just finished my technical training for the navy back in '03 I was issued an Axim X3, and holy crap those things were horrible.. As well as most other PDA's back then (the navy didn't keep track of them, and alot of people sold theirs to trade up in that area because they thought having a better one was cool..) the thought behind them was amazing.. the ideas we had for possible uses with them, but the platform just wasn't capable of doing it. (which of course, is a platform issue, not a product issue) and because of that they disappeared for the most part. Apple came in, and re-launched them in a big way, with lots of marketing and hype, and now look where we are at. Like Android? Thank Apple.. because it wouldn't be here without it. Like your lil G Slates? Thank Apple.. They wouldn't be here either.
You know.. one of my biggest gripes with the whole idiotic Anti-Apple crowd.. Is how the entire world can do something, yet when Apple does the same.. they flip. If you don't like re-thought and marketed stuff.. I suppose you would also be wearing fur(the original clothing), driving Ford Model T's (basically the original car.....basically.), and etc.. Things are always re-thought, re-designed, and re-released. It's called advancement. Happens every day. And yeah, some people are blind Apple fanatics, and they need to wake up too.. The PC "genre" has alot of amazing and fun things, and ideas. It's almost like two battling religions.. Each thinks the other is better, when they really are clearly not, and instead, they look like idiots to everyone around them. I simply use a couple of their products because I just plain and simply enjoy using them. Just like my Jeep. Just like my GSXR. Just like everything else in like. I try many things, and then use what I like the most
/www.knightfoundation.org/bl [...] -pre-ipad/skip to about 3 mins and there you'll see a feature on tablets. As for phones...what was a palm pilot? an Ipad with worse technology.~~[/citation]
Thanks for the video link, its interesting. The tablet device in the video was a concept of a possible future technology and pretty good prediction. The technology wasn't possible back then, much less 5 years ago.
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