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What DID Apple innovate? (lemmy.world)
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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.

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[–] 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

Not really. To have fresh dynamic content having to install a third party plugin is a bad take. Web development was stagnating due to IE's market dominance.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago

    To have fresh dynamic content having to install a third party plugin is a bad take.

    It was the public opinion in the 00s, yes. And I think I even thought the same back then (being a kid, so my opinion doesn't matter much ; but I did have that "afraid to catch a virus" feeling which was amplified by a page containing something in Flash).

    But I disagree now, looking at all that transpired. It was a good thing that HTML (as in hypertext markup language) and JS weren't responsible for such things. And it's fine to serve applications for various interpreters over HTTP as part of webpages.

    I also think that Java applets were a good idea, not just Flash, for the same reason.

    Also the browser developer and the Flash developer were not the same party. Which means that Flash was more or less egalitarian between browsers.

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