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Re:SEC Sues Musk and Seeks Ban for His Tweets on Go-Private ... by baxtr on Thursday September 27, 2018 @05:27PM (#18088874)
Why would you say that for example the Apple Watch is "nothing new"?

Or: what is the difference between jumping from an iPhone to an iPad (considered as genius by Jobs) and jumping from a fingerprint ID to a 3D face recognition.

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Re:SEC Sues Musk and Seeks Ban for His Tweets on Go-Private ... by Animats on Thursday September 27, 2018 @05:35PM (#18088972)
Why would you say that for example the Apple Watch is "nothing new"?

Pebble.

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Re:SEC Sues Musk and Seeks Ban for His Tweets on Go-Private ... by baxtr on Thursday September 27, 2018 @05:37PM (#18088987)
So then the iPhone was nothing new either?
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Re:SEC Sues Musk and Seeks Ban for His Tweets on Go-Private ... by isostatic on Thursday September 27, 2018 @06:30PM (#18089405)
Indeed, and the ipod had no wireless and less space than a nomad, it was lame.

Oh wait, while Malda was technically right, it turned music files mainstream, and the iPhone turned touchscreen phones mainstream

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Re:SEC Sues Musk and Seeks Ban for His Tweets on Go-Private ... by stevew20 on Thursday September 27, 2018 @05:40PM (#18089019)
Affirmative.
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Re:SEC Sues Musk and Seeks Ban for His Tweets on Go-Private ... by reanimated on Thursday September 27, 2018 @06:06PM (#18089218)
Yes it wasn't new per se, they didn't created first mobile phone with a touchscreen, but you can't deny that this one device single handedly shifted direction of entire industry. Similar things, just not in that scale is happening with watch. In reality no other smartwatch is even close to the Apple Watch. There is no competition. Same as with an iPad or the iPods before that.
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