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Re:Leaving the Nest by DINKDINK on Friday June 03, 2016 @09:25PM (#11834432)
>[Steve Jobs] was a genius who essentially invented new product categories

What product categories did Steve/Apple invent? All of their major breakthroughs (iPod, iPhone, iPad) were already existing product categories but Apple just made them right / what customers wanted. Correct me if I'm wrong.

Re:Leaving the Nest by jimbokun on Friday June 03, 2016 @10:06PM (#11834557)
That's just semantics.

"Made them right / what customers wanted" covers so much ground for those products, it's fair to say they were first in a new category of product.

For example, "smart phone" means "phone that works like an iPhone", more or less.

Re:Leaving the Nest by pm24601 on Friday June 03, 2016 @09:44PM (#11834496)
I would vote for mobile internet.

Yes, Blackberry had a smart(ish) phone. But it was really just a mobile email phone. Apple was the first phone manufacturer to provide a full featured, no compromises mobile internet browsing experience.

I would then add the whole mobile app store concept. Blackberry's version was really nothing much.

Re:Leaving the Nest by tunap on Saturday June 04, 2016 @07:36AM (#11835957)
Nah, he borrowed/stole this too from others(his words, JFGI:artists+borrow+steal+jobs).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_tablet#Early_devices