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I don't know. MP3 players, smartphones and tablets already existed for a while by the time Apple announced it's products. But the products were so successful that they are now credited as having (re)invented the market. I don't see why this can't happen, for instance, with workstations, this market has been stagnant for a while.



Looking at the MacBook Air, and retina MBP, and their success, Apple seems to have done a fair job of reinventing the laptop market. Quite possibly, the desktop will follow.


MBA was a better netbook. Retina is just catching up to where displays should be had they not stopped improving this century.

These are incremental, not reinventing. These are successes, but they shouldn't be held up as reinventing when they aren't.




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