Filed under: Hardware, iPod Family, OS, Apple, MacBook, iPhone
Our friends over at Engadget have selected their top 10 gadgets of the last decade (the naughts, as I like to call them), and Apple has come up big: four out of the ten choices are made by the company from Cupertino. The iPhone is on the list (of course), as is the iPod. The original Titanium PowerBook fills a spot for its “category-shaping design” and its influence on laptops since its release in 2001.
Perhaps most interesting, Mac OS X is on the list right alongside Windows XP as a co-gadget of the decade. Engadget says that both operating systems provided fresh and clean restarts for their respective companies, and that while OS X took a little while to “become a usable daily OS” (ouch), it still helped to “set a new standard for computing.”
Being the Apple weblog that we are, we might argue that Windows XP provided a solid update to Windows 98, while OS X offered up some actual innovation in the operating system market (and Apple still carries the banner on commercial UI innovation today). But we’re nitpicking on that one — 40% of their gadgets that shaped the decade were made by one company, and that’s good enough for us.
TUAWApple nabs four of Engadget’s 10 gadgets of the decade originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Wed, 30 Dec 2009 20:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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