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"Kick-starting the USB revolution" doesn't mean the same thing as "innovation."

They only included USB on the original iMac, which was a death-knell for the legacy connectors, and quite controversial at the time given the iMac's place in the cultural zeitgeist.

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I pretty much see adoption of technology as innovation. Not technical innovation for sure, but innovation in the sense of significant improvement over other solutions.

Don't you consider the original Mac adoption of the 3.5" floppy drive as innovation?

No, it's forced adoption. You have a houseful of 5.25" and need a new computer and have no options now. That's hardly innovative.

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