[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

Apple had nothing to do with that.

Actually, they did. They forced the market to come up with more storage. If they hadn't did what they did, we'd still be using 3.5 floppy disks.

[dangerdoc]

“They forced the market to come up with more storage. If they hadn’t did what they did, we’d still be using 3.5 floppy disks.”

Can’t tell if you are serious

[Lazamataz]

Actually, they did. They forced the market to come up with more storage. If they hadn't did what they did, we'd still be using 3.5 floppy disks.

Yeah, but they'd be 1 terabyte floppys.

[arl295]

no, they did not, and no we would not be using 3.5” floppy disks today

What they did was inconvenienced their customers at the time to save a few bucks. It wasn’t “innovation” it was just shaving a few dollars on a machine.

USB drives, cloud storage, CD/DVD Recordable disks, were still going to be invented and improved regardless what Apple did. The iMac was not even 1% of the market at that time so it forced nothing because it was nothing.