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.

  • sparky1337@ttrpg.network
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    7 months ago

    I guess it would be better to say they innovated the slate style phone. Android didn’t come out until 2008 and all other top phones used physical buttons. The iPhone technically only had 5 for general functions.

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      7 months ago

      The LG Prada did that before iPhone too. More accurate to say Apple popularised it and made it a more cohesive package

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        7 months ago

        Haha I had to look it up, but that’s the definition of “innovation”. Literally taking something existing and making it better.

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        6 months ago

        My ex-wife had the non-Prada version of that handset, and it was actually pretty cool. Didn’t really do much more than any normal phone of the time, mind, but was at least technically a smart phone.