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No, is the short answer to that. They steal others' ideas, jack the price up, and spend loads on clever marketing. They then rewrite history to make themselves sound like the pioneers:
- When Steve Jobs accused Microsoft of stealing their interface design for Windows, Bill Gates rightly pointed out that in all fairness, they both independently plagiarised from Xerox. Steve Jobs's response was to screech, lose his shit, and throw lolsuits everywhere. In fact, the first GUI was from Digital Research's (a branch of Xerox) GEM, released 1982.
- The iPhone has been historically behind the times with both form factor and screen resolution. They still are only on 1080p when most Android phones have had 1440p since the middle of last decade - my last phone before my current one was a Galaxy Note Edge and that was on 1600p and that came out in 2014. Similarly, they and their fanboys scoffed at the first big Android phones in 2012 when the Galaxy Note and the LG G3 came out, but now small phones are the exception rather than the rule. Android has historically been ahead in functionality as well - you could do split screen and multiple cameras long before Apple came along with it, but now they've done so it's a HuGe InNOvAtIOn.
- The iPhone is also behind the times in construction as well. Oh, but they were doing glass sandwiches first, cry the NPCs. Maybe so, but they use shitty glass even to this day. I've not seen half as many Androids with a busted screen as I have iPhones. Also, the sealed glass sandwich is arguably a backwards step IMO because it means you can't have removable batteries, which means if the battery fails, and it will, phone over. The Galaxy Note 7 debacle would have been soluble if they'd persisted with the Note 4's construction. Exploding batteries sir? No problem sir, just send your battery in and we'll send out a fresh one that doesn't in a wee bit, rather than having to rebuild everyone's phone. Okay, LG tried with the G5 and persisted with removable batteries up until the V20 but they were the last holdouts, and the G5's removable battery was all a bit of a kludge anyhow.
- The iPad was not the first tablet. Tablets, including Apple's own Newton, were about in the 1990s only they were called something else back then, like palmtops or similar.
- The Apple II was the first properly successful home computer, I'll give them that. Okay, the TRS-80 and Commodore PET might have been slightly first but the Apple II was successful. However, the II was mostly Wozniak's doing; Jobs was just the weirdo marketing bloke. They don't like to talk about Woz because he is inconvenient to Jobs's ego.
Basically, Apple's innovation is not in technology, but in selling overpriced shit to consoomers, and deliberately gimping their functionality and spinning it as "user friendly."
