[quote=afx114]Apple didn’t invent the smartphone either. But they changed the game and upped people’s expectations on what a smartphone *should* be in 2007. Replace “smartphone” in the last sentence with “tablet” or “GUI” or “CGI” and that is the essence of Apple.[/quote]
Fixed. What you describe is just your typical leap frogging in technology industry. Android is doing to iOS what iOS did to Windows Mobile. Without Android pushing the envelope, we probably wouldn’t see multi-tasking in iOS. Even the current multi-tasking in iOS isn’t as robust as Android. Then there’s the tighter integration to the various Google services and social networking services. Windows Phone 7 took that integration to the next level. Same with tablet. You can say, tablets running Windows was before its time. A few years back, when Windows tablet came out, CPU choices were either powerful with poor battery life (x86 chips), or very low performance with better batter life (ARM). When the original iPad came out, ARM chips have gotten much more powerful. Also, some could say today’s tablet is nothing more than a phone with larger screen. It’s not like they put OSX on there. WRT to GUI, I don’t see it. Windows 7 GUI is so much more advance than OSX is. CGI is Pixar, not Apple. Pixar did solve a problem that many are not trying to solve. Even to this day, 100% CGI movies are a small subset of movies. Kind of like animated films. CGI mixed with human actors on the other hand have been going on for awhile now and continue to advance. This is the problem many companies are trying to solve.
