[Swordmaker]

BTW, didn’t Apple also invent high-definition screes, 4k screens?

Actually, the iMac was 5K, not 4K. . . and they sold the entire computer for the price of just a 5K MONITOR in the PC world. Get your snark right, Adorno.

Apple was also the first smartphone maker to introduce larger screens t(o) the smartphone space.

Please show me any smartphone in 2007 that had larger multi-touch screen than the 3.5" screen on the revolutionary Apple iPhone. Please.

They were also first with fingerprint ID

How about the FIRST that actually worked as an ID system, Adorno? I have a friend who had the Motorola with the fingerprint sensor. She had gone through all the trouble of training the sensor to her fingerprint. Nine times out of ten, it would not recognize her fingerprint to unlock the phone. . . but every time I tried it with MY thumb, which was NOT trained to me, it unlocked and opened the phone for me. Every time. So much for its usefulness as a security device. Apple's works and is not capable of being spoofed because it does not actually use the fingerprint. . . reading instead the ridges and valleys in the fat pads beneath the skin of the fingertip. The few claims of people who say they have been able to get it to use a "fingerprint" copy were actually reading their OWN finger ridges below the copy on their own iPhones, and their methods failed attempts at duplication by others or when used on an iPhone not owned by the tester.

I hear Apple will also be inventing the driverless cars, and the infotainment systems in cars.

Apple's CarPlay is already contracted to over 40 automobile makers and is installed in quite a few 2015 and 2016 car models using SIRI voice activation including Honda, Cadillac, Chevrolet, and Ferrari (starting in 2014 with the Ferrari FF). Sorry, you are late with this snark. I drove a rental car with CarPlay installed a week ago. Excellent.

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Please show me any smartphone in 2007 that had larger multi-touch screen than the 3.5" screen on the revolutionary Apple iPhone. Please.

Wow! You had to go back to the original iPhone to try to reply to my point, BUT!!!!, the point was/is that, Apple was late to the larger than 4 inch screens that Samsung and Microsoft and others had been doing for about 2-3 years before Apple noticed that, people were actually buying those bigger screens devices in huge quantities. Heck, Apple was even against the idea of bigger than 4 inch screens a couple of years ago.

Apple Car Play? And Siri?

Well, fined and dandy, but, while there may be a bunch of car models that can be equipped with Car Play, chances are that, the vast majority of purchases of those cars will choose not to get Car Play, since, it would be very limited by Apple's intervention and control of the technology. Also, Apple's share of the smartphone market, while significant, is lower than Android/Samsung/Google. Why limit yourself when you can get a better and more significant infotainment system from Google and others?

Then, Siri? Are you effing kidding me? When the much better voice assistants are made by Google and Microsoft, why settle for third best? Heck, I doubt anybody would make the decision to go with a car that has Siri inside, if they were to first get a taste of Cortana or Google Now?

And, why also settle for third best when there are much better mapping apps from Google or Microsoft?

When it comes ultra-high-definition screens, well, they were around for a bunch of years before Apple decided to include them in one of the Mac computers. Fact is that, there were others that considered adding 4k screens with their PCs, but felt that it was overkill for most applications and for most people. It still is overkill, since, there aren't many apps or applications that can take advantage of that kind of resolution. It was mostly gimmicky and a way to create a refresh-cycle for their iMacs.

When it comes to fingerprint ID, well, my point still stands, that,Apple didn't invent it. It was another gimmick after it proved to not a bit problematic in the first iteration of the tech in their iPhones.

I don't fault Apple for not being first in most innovations that they later do put to use. They do like to wait for tech to first be proven in other devices, before Apple implements them in Apple tech.

Oh, I forgot to give them credit for one of the greatest 'innovations'; ever, perhaps even bigger than the invention of the wheel, and that's the idea of 'round corners' for their iPhones.

Yup! Apple, the greatest 'innovator' of ideas or inventions that were previously existing.