Engineers are the biggest dreamers among all members of the species Homo sapiens – they always invent some things, some of which then become part of our everyday life. Time magazine chose the 50 inventions that forever changed “the way we live, work and play”.
In the ranking of the greatest inventions in the field of personal technologies in the history of mankind were the iPhone, the Macintosh computer, multimedia player iPod or tablet iPad. Popular Apple products took the list of the first, third, ninth and twenty-fifth place respectively.
Released in 2007, Apple changed the entire mobile industry. The device forever changed the idea of what should be the phone: today almost all models from Samsung, HTC, LG, Sony iPhone resemble, and internal system applications and content copies the approach of iTunes and the App Store. This is a unique, unprecedented example of how a revolutionary product is able to fully reshape the market in a few years.
iPod was in tenth place ranking. Released in 2011, Apple changed not only the way of listening to the songs, but the entire music industry, but he still gave way to the portable Walkman player from Sony. Player the Walkman from Sony was fourth in the overall standings. Appeared 32 years ago, the Walkman was the first device to the mass market, allowing you to listen to music outside the home or car.
Compared to the thousands of songs in the iPod, the Walkman could only store a few tracks on tape audio tapes, the album is average then no more than 25 songs. However, there are a few things that can rival and iPod. For example, additional headphone Jack to listen to music with a friend. Another advantage is the possibility of replacing the battery.
iPad the rating Time was on the 25th place. “Tablet” Apple was not the first in the world tablet computer, but this product has set the standard for the entire class of gadgets that made the tablets so popular. On the 38th place in the rating Time is the Apple iBook is a line of portable Apple computers based on processors PowerPC, produced since 1999. A laptop computer was presented as an elegant, inexpensive device for pupils, students and General users.
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