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over the decades of Apple's existence they've entered a ton of different categories from personal computers to phones to video cameras and even video game consoles and whether you like Apple or you're on the other side of that argument one thing that you cannot argue is Apple has had success a pretty common argument to make against Apple and one that I've made for years is that they're very rarely first they sit out generations they wait for new technologies look at wireless charging for example and they wait until they feel the technology is ready to go but doesn't even matter that they sit them out I don't think you'll have one device I think you'll have a full screen device that you can carry around and you'll do dramatically more reading lights off of that yeah I mean I believe in the tablet form factor the iPad was not the first tablet Microsoft had been doing tablets for years even Apple themselves had the Newton there was a third-party manufacturers I was taking a MacBook Pro and turning that into a touchscreen called the mod book but when Apple entered the market it became very clear that this is the way a tablet should be done so 2010 when the iPad was announced and it was pitched is like the Internet in your hands and if you think about what that mobile internet was back then this was a pretty big deal sort of have a larger display like the tablet market back then was dominated by a thing that was like resistive touchscreen so you had to use a stylus and actually like push into the screen almost to get it to react so something that was capacitive and this large was awesome I mean I went and I waited in line I pretty much camped out for the iPad and I maybe I bought into the hype because camping out for product that you've never used before or new product category is admittedly crazy but even from the first day like I was hooked on the iPad and it's kind of funny the way I used the iPad on day one with the original iPad is kind of how I still use a now I I watch movies in bed with my wife I reply to emails in the morning before I get up use some social media on it but it's it's always been a consumption machine for me over the years and that just gotten better as the tablets have gotten better as the displays have gotten better then I can just do more on it but it still is the ultimate consumption machine and certainly you could do almost everything they can do on an iPad now on your phone but having a larger screen to do that on has really just improved the overall experience and still stay true to that original vision of the internet in your hands I love the current gen iPad pro for me it's as close to perfect as a tablet could be but even that close is still not perfect we did a whole video when I talked about what the iPad pro needed to get better what iOS 13 needed to improve the experience and we're heading in that direction but the iPad changed tablet landscape and it changed how people use a tablet it really was the Internet in your hand I don't think I've ever seen an industry get more reactionary then that first gen iPad so iPad got announced Motorola was like we gotta do something and then the zoom came out with a version of Android that was like just for the tablets running honeycomb the tablet was so half-baked and rushed if you wanted cellular to work it was launched with Verizon you had actually send the tablet back to Motorola and they would add the module in and send it back to you and I remember i pre-ordered one I went to Best Buy first thing in the morning to get it to see what the competition could do he looked at it and like this is it it was really clear from day one how far ahead Apple was and then companies caught up you know Samsung sort of entered the market they had their tablet lying we saw a bajillion Android tablets we even saw palm or HP at the time entered the market there was a lot of options but one tablet the way Apple did things succeeded for a reason it worked out of the box and it worked well in fact that's worked so well it's pretty much decimated any tablet competition there's still some of their Samsung's got pretty awesome tablet options as far as market share goes so Apple not only gobbled up the market they killed the competition in the process I think the iPad has just followed the Apple mantra like they waited they saw an opportunity in the market they just release a product that worked really well didn't do anything necessarily new but it did everything very very well so before we keep rolling with the video hope you guys have been enjoying the content share subscribe and hit that notification bow so you get the heads up when the videos are coming your way we got a bunch of awesome stuff lined up including some giveaways I don't think you guys are going to want to miss and again I want to get a big thank you to this video sponsor log me ins go to room so meetings are not the most awesome part of everybody's day but they're an important part of business it's a reality that I'm sure you guys deal with on a regular basis we do it here too and it can be kind of a complicated mess of setting up speakers cameras and mics try to get us all look like we are in the same place but fortunately go to room has a solution this is an all encapsulated solution that's crazy to set up for four users easy it set up for admins and it works really well you've got an awesome 10 inch touchscreen lets you control everything you got a Polycom studio that's the camera it's the mic and it's a speakers and they sound really good and it's fully integrated with GoToMeeting actually comes with the license or GoToMeeting so you know it's going to work well if you have conference calls with 250 people I have 25 cameras up and you will look and sound absolutely awesome it seems like something that would probably be complicated but the setup is literally minutes you plug couple things in you've got an Intel nook in the box the software is already 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this is like peak Apple watch very little difference between one and three four I think they hit it out of the park our friend leb said when I was a kid it was my Apple two Gs I was in love with that thing now I believe it's my iPhone and I talked about business school my former professor Raymond peru's was said the Macintosh because the GUI plus Mouse defined the era of bringing a modern computing to the masses and that's what the 1984 ad was all about revolutionary in a big way as of yet unmatched by a tech company Internet was bigger but it's a different category so Ryan Negri said iPhone and air pods both game ecosystem changing products really excited for the future of voice technology so you look back in the pantheon of Apple products like the one that stands out that Apple clearly did right it's it's the iPhone smartphones existed before 2007 I had him I loved them they were most often called blackberries and they were great and then the iPhone came around didn't it changed smartphones you only have to look at what Android looked like before the iPhone and Android looked like after the iPhone to see the impact that Apple smartphone had on the marketplace and since the iPhone first launched almost every phone that's come out whether you want to hear it or not has been some iteration of what Apple's doing if you look at the flagship market look at the design language that Apple started look recently at the notch you see Android phones adding notches for no reason other than to look like an iPhone so as amazing as I remember the first iPhone to be and as breakthrough a product as it was it was a hot mess when that phone first came out so 3G was the big fan going on the phone was rocking edge you couldn't record video on it so obviously you couldn't send SMS the headphone jack was recessed so far that you essentially had to use only Apple's headphones that were in the box there was a lot of things to romanticize liked about the iPhone certainly I just did it in this video but it was still a very flawed clearly first gen device I can still hate Apple and I appreciate what they've done for the smartphone space Apple didn't wear these the iPhone in 2007 would probably still be using some version of a blackberry you guessed it the Apple iPhone so I member right I set up the phone it was singular at the time make my first phone call it's the phone it's got to work and held it up to call my girlfriend who's now my wife hello hello hello the speaker was busted on my first iPhone I was crushed so you hear all these news stories there are lines they were gonna be sold out and my like geek heart heard a little bit so I set my alarm I woke up extra early I went to the Apple Store first thing in the morning and they swapped it out and I got one that worked and I was happy I was able to use it and then I went to a wedding that weekend and I was the only one that had an iPhone and there was a crowd of people cuz nobody had really seen anything like this before no one had seen again the pinch-to-zoom typing on a screen was still essentially a new experience and everybody had questions and how it worked but everybody wanted to hold one everybody wanted to feel one and see what it looked like and you could tell at that moment that this was different this wasn't the next-generation blackberry pearl it wasn't the new curve this was something very unique to the market and once you use the original iPhone you knew very clearly that phones were never gonna be the same so it wasn't surprising to see the industry reacts to that first iPhone and see a bunch of clones hit the market but what's surprising is industry is still reacting to the current generation of iPhones whatever year it might be and that is changing a little bit right now we've got thinner bezels phones that folds cameras that are popping up but the design language of modern smartphone still stems from Apple you might not like how Apple got to this point but air pods are the correct way to do wireless audio so the air pods like pretty much every Apple product are not perfect no noise cancelling is crazy still only being available in one color no volume controls the list goes on and on yet despite their imperfections you see air pods everywhere you see clones have flooded the market and that's for a reason they just work and they work really well and they work unlike any other offering a competitor has on the market look obviously wireless headphones have been around for a while again Apple did not do that technology first but what Apple did was streamline the experience it seemed obvious that those wires were gonna go what didn't seem obvious that Apple's design languages was gonna be just cutting the cords essentially on the earpods but it works the pairing process is simple the UI is elegant Apple took something that seemed inevitable and made it easy to the consumer you don't have to change the way you do your things for the products products just work for you I was so like upset at Apple for removing the headphone jack on the iPhone 7 and it seemed like they were removed it so they could sell you air pods that I resisted buying air pods for a while just as my own teeny tiny form of micro protests it's in ridiculous they would take something away and then sell you a solution but when I bought air pause and perhaps I got Apple brainwashed the ease-of-use and how they could work for me just make things a lot simpler I never liked the idea of holding a cell phone them to my head all the time and by nature of my business I'm on the phone all the times the fact that I could just have those and keep the phone in my pocket was super simple and like most Apple things the UI is pretty slick the first gen air pods just work and what's surprising to me is how many they've sold despite like not really even being all that great anything in fact they are just convenient made these things fly off the shelves once Apple announced air pods we saw a very familiar path start to appear competition was coming out with some form of wireless earbuds some looked very similar and we're obviously clones some were trying to improve the concept but again as Apple went so went the rest of the market following Apple making videos on Apple is fun but also infuriating you see competition coming out with crazy new things foldable displays wireless charging at the time LTE 3G the list goes on and on and you wait for Apple you wait to see if they care you wait to see if Apple is ever gonna do it and when they do eventually enter they're never first but usually their interpretation of that new technology that new product usually works very well from the start and is almost always better than the competition who might been at it for years so we can debate all we want whether or not Apple made the right moves entering these markets but you have to do is look at the competition that's left and the market share to know that they did