PC World has put together a top 25 list of the most innovative products of the year 2007, noting the “Innovation”, the “Benefit” and a brief overview of each. All entries on the list are somehow tech-related and all are available either in-store or online right now. I personally can’t wrap my head around how the order of this list was devised, or how some products even made it on the list, but I’m sure the reasoning is clear to someone. Have a look at the list and let us know what you think of it, and what your top 25 would be!
1. Google Gears
2. Apple iPhone
3. One Laptop per Child XO
4. Time Machine, in Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard)
5. Amazon Kindle
6. NetGear Digital Entertainer HD EVA8000
7. HP TouchSmart IQ770 PC
8. AT&T Tilt
9. Facebook API
10. DeviceVM Splashtop
11. Toshiba Portege R500
12. Data Robotics Drobo
13. Hybrid Hard Drives
14. Eye-Fi Card
15. Panasonic TH-42PZ700U
16. Yamaha Tenori-On
17. Zoho Notebook
18. 'In Rainbows' by Radiohead
19. IOGear Wireless USB Hub and Adapter
20. Mint.com
21. Microsoft Popfly
22. Sprint Airave
23. Ask.com
24. eXpresso
25. Kodak EasyShare All-In-One Printers
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Apple just copied the LG KE850 Prada phone, the KE850 Prada was released 6 months before the iPhone.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HHs8_OGGNs4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fBl4djMnEy8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IWEMaqkkYWw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F5916aOMQNI
Apple just copied the LG KE850 Prada phone, the KE850 Prada was released 6 months before the iPhone.
Agreed. The LG Prada phone was out first. And there have also been touch-screen smartphones in the past. This is not the first time Apple has been incorrectly credited for being first.
Last edited by hewitt s. on 31 Dec 2007 - 20:43
Yet so much fail in that one.
Yet so much fail in that one.
I don't see much 'fail' in it. Instead of getting 1$ or 2$ from the record label per album sold, they're getting an average of 5$, even with half the people paying nothing. It's genius.
Yet so much fail in that one.
What? Please explain. I'm dying to hear this.
Sorry, but I guess maybe I'm misunderstanding what you're saying. There was two versions, a downloadable version and the pay version. The downloadable/free version was of a lower quality, yes, but that was because it was free, which means you did not have to purchase it twice (I don't even know where you got that). Also, it was the full album when I downloaded it, so I also have no idea where the incomplete album thing you mentioned came from either.
Also, just a heads up, but the downloadable free version is no longer available.
All in all I have absolutely no idea where you're getting your facts from.
seriusly... facebook API ? (I hope that includes that microsoft webpage gadget developer thing... oh nevermind, popfly was further down... wtf popfly below facebook api.....), iPhone, XO.
and TimeMachine ? funy since I recall that being in existence for severals years on Windows Server 2003 as PRevius versions, and later, but before Leopard in Vista.... and those versions don't include elaborate stupid animations, and they're technically far ahead of Time Machine in the way they do the "backups".
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This was at the end of theTime Machine description
Seriusly... have they even used Vista ? or are they seriusly hardcore Apple fanboys ?
This was at the end of theTime Machine description
Seriusly... have they even used Vista ? or are they seriusly hardcore Apple fanboys ?
Seriously, can you really say Volume Shadow Copy is as easy to use as Time Machine?
This was at the end of theTime Machine description
Seriusly... have they even used Vista ? or are they seriusly hardcore Apple fanboys ?
Seriously, can you really say Volume Shadow Copy is as easy to use as Time Machine?
PREVIOUS VERSIONS.
yeah I can. and no stupid animation to restore previus version, and not stupdi "backup hourly" and "to external/separate HDD" crap.
And don't mix up VSC with previus versions. PRevius Versions use VSC, but it's not VSC.
Don't know about vista but in server 03 you just right click the h/d, click properties, go on the VSC tab and enable it, or use the backup wizard.
You don't know, yet you know they're totally different? They both have the same purpose: to track changed files and allow you to restore them to a previous state. The main difference is that VSC/PV doesn't require that you use a dedicated hard drive just for backups.
You don't know, yet you know they're totally different? They both have the same purpose: to track changed files and allow you to restore them to a previous state. The main difference is that VSC/PV doesn't require that you use a dedicated hard drive just for backups.
But then you're machine or hard drive fecks up, you've lost all your previous versions, but not if you used time machine. Previous versions, you can go back and find various files, but you usually limit how many versions you have and time machine makes it a lot easier to find with previews and spotlight highlighting the differences be the versions, plus it be a lot easier to regress back in time with time machine rather then using copy (drag of previous versions)
You don't know, yet you know they're totally different? They both have the same purpose: to track changed files and allow you to restore them to a previous state. The main difference is that VSC/PV doesn't require that you use a dedicated hard drive just for backups.
But then you're machine or hard drive fecks up, you've lost all your previous versions, but not if you used time machine. Previous versions, you can go back and find various files, but you usually limit how many versions you have and time machine makes it a lot easier to find with previews and spotlight highlighting the differences be the versions, plus it be a lot easier to regress back in time with time machine rather then using copy (drag of previous versions)
VSC/PV doesn't require that you use the same drive. It's very configurable. There's also Complete PC for a full backup. You can also search all of the Previous Versions via the desktop search. Don't get me wrong, Time Machine is probably great, but it looks pretty goofy.
Last edited by GreyWolfSC on 29 Dec 2007 - 03:21
That being said, how this counts as a "Innovative Product" when it's a feature built into an operating system is beyond me. Let me see, I'll suggest Vista Media Centre as a innovation - oh nevermind, Vista's such a failure so nothing Vista-related is worthy of being listed.
That being said, how this counts as a "Innovative Product" when it's a feature built into an operating system is beyond me. Let me see, I'll suggest Vista Media Centre as a innovation - oh nevermind, Vista's such a failure so nothing Vista-related is worthy of being listed.
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa384961.aspx
Just because not many applications use it doesn't mean it doesn't have the capability to everything you just described.
Any application can tell VSS about its data, and how to back it up, as well as retrieving that data at a later point.
Last edited by MioTheGreat on 29 Dec 2007 - 17:54
Last edited by GreyWolfSC on 29 Dec 2007 - 00:23
I don't believe you.
Mark my words, people will be singing Vista's praises and making the same stupid comments about Windows 7, just like they did for XP/2000.
Last edited by Athernar on 29 Dec 2007 - 12:59
Look at the list again, then tell me you see any common sense displayed... Really... a wireless router is innovative?
Also, they did mention Vista. They said it has no features like Time Machine, which is completely false.
Last edited by GreyWolfSC on 29 Dec 2007 - 02:39
Mark my words, people will be singing Vista's praises and making the same stupid comments about Windows 7, just like they did for XP/2000.
Yup! You're 100% correct, sir. Those of us who have good memories will recall that XP received just as much slack as Vista is now.
Mark my words, people will be singing Vista's praises and making the same stupid comments about Windows 7, just like they did for XP/2000.
You actually meant #1 on lists made by people that actually tried Vista and realize it's as bad and sometimes worse than it has been portrayed, and that is on a new Laptop using Vista's own specs
Mark my words, people will be singing Vista's praises and making the same stupid comments about Windows 7, just like they did for XP/2000.
You actually meant #1 on lists made by people that actually tried Vista and realize it's as bad and sometimes worse than it has been portrayed, and that is on a new Laptop using Vista's own specs
I tried Vista, kept it, like it. You use whatever you use and I'll use Vista. There's no need to bash it just because you don't want to use it.
Last edited by hewitt s. on 31 Dec 2007 - 20:45
I understood the official release was in November 2006
I understood the official release was in November 2006
OEM/Volume license release was November 2006. Retail was January 2007.
Ask.com is not from 2007 either. Neither are the Kodak printers. My mom's had one for two years.
And as far as Radiohead is concerned, I know that Carbon/ Silicon has been giving away their music for free download for years- and it's good!
It also allows AJAX style applications to continue to function to some extent while you're offline.
It also allows AJAX style applications to continue to function to some extent while you're offline.
It's not just a database. Did you look at the Gears site?
* A local server, to cache and serve application resources (HTML, JavaScript, images, etc.) without needing to contact a server
* A database, to store and access data from within the browser
* A worker thread pool, to make web applications more responsive by performing expensive operations in the background
The example pages they provide do more than just store data. It's like a mega-cookie.
1. Mac Pro
2. MacBook Pro
3. MacBook
4. iMac
5. Mac OS X Leopard
6. iPhone
7. iPod
8. MacWorld 2007
9. All things Apple
10. Everything else
1. Mac Pro
2. MacBook Pro
3. MacBook
4. iMac
5. Mac OS X Leopard
6. iPhone
7. iPod
8. MacWorld 2007
9. All things Apple
10. Everything else
Yeah, and if you smoke any more of that Apple crack its going to kill you...
If so, it was hilarious!
If so, it was hilarious!
It was not a stab at Apple fans. It was a stab at the Apple drone(s) that plague this site and spew out the same inane comments over and over thinking they're being clever. THEY, not the company or their products, are what makes me want to shoot myself in the stomach before I'd buy anything from Apple.
Last edited by GreyWolfSC on 29 Dec 2007 - 14:07
The annoying minority of Mac users isn't a good enough reason to deny yourself The Joy of Mac. Besides, who's more likely to be a drone: the one who uses an OS with 5% market share or the one with 90%?
There only is an annoying minority of Mac users...
The 5% who all parrot the same corporate spin and who buy into the same niche marketing/bandwagon ad campaigns. "Think different" means "think the same as the Apple collective".
Whether you realize it or not, Apple drones are just the Scientologists of the IT world.
I use my PC in an entirely different way than him, or you, or them, or everyone else. And you have to use your Mac the exact same way as every other Mac user does.
Last edited by NateB1 on 29 Dec 2007 - 05:27
1. sliced bread
then start everything else.
ah....you missed the sarcasm..
my bad....
Zunes are garbage, why would you put it on a list of so called innovations?
The Facebook API is garbage, why would you put it on a list of so called innovations?
Zunes are garbage, why would you put it on a list of so called innovations?
I have yet to find a Zune in the trash. If you do so, please let me know. I want one and will pay for the postage.
Also, to all you time machine critics, obviously you haven't used it before. The point is not that it backs up your files. The point is that it is fully integrated into the system so even the most computer-illiterate can enable it and use it, yet it is still powerful enough. THAT is why it is innovation.
Last edited by Robgig1088 on 29 Dec 2007 - 07:47
In Soviet Russia, car already drives YOU!
the iphone indeed is innovative and time machine either...
just as radiohead or kindle... i like the list.
but then again noone needs pcworld to make up such a list...
and just like every other list its kinda useless. =)
that's about the oldest excuse people use.
You think becouse someone disagrees with your opinion that they "must never have used it before". I think most Neowins have at least tried out macs, Windows and Linux enough to understand how things work.
You think becouse someone disagrees with your opinion that they "must never have used it before". I think most Neowins have at least tried out macs, Windows and Linux enough to understand how things work.
If that was really the case this place would be called NeoMac.
You think becouse someone disagrees with your opinion that they "must never have used it before". I think most Neowins have at least tried out macs, Windows and Linux enough to understand how things work.
If that was really the case this place would be called NeoMac.
Or maybe I ave used them and have supportedthe thing, and I just can't stand using them and I have no idea how anyone can claim they are beter/easier to use than windows, or een cli linux.
You think becouse someone disagrees with your opinion that they "must never have used it before". I think most Neowins have at least tried out macs, Windows and Linux enough to understand how things work.
If that was really the case this place would be called NeoMac.
Why NeoMac?
Why not NeoLinux?
And lastly, how on earth does the name count for anything?
Probably not. The amount of Windows users who walk into an Apple store, fiddle around with Photo Booth, and walk out claiming to have "experience" in using OS X are equal to the vocal number of average Joes and possibly Mac users who walk into any store, see Vista on a stretched out LCD screen with 50 icons visible on the desktop, and have enough "experience" to call Vista a dripping piece of crap.
Sometimes this "and yeah, my opinion matters because I have a PhD in fanboyism engineering and I've used every single OS in existence" is just a coverup for a idiotic rant. The true users who have multi-platform experience don't flaunt their credentials while having a discussion (well, most of the time).
Last edited by rm20010 on 29 Dec 2007 - 19:52
Most Windows users who give the Mac a fair chance find they prefer it. But of course there is a minority, such as yourself who don't. And some find it difficult to embrace change.
It doesn't matter how many icons are on the desktop, Mac users will attack Vista with zero hands-on experience.
As for having 50 icons on the desktop, that was probably a Dell. =)
true. But then you'd have only 3% of the people visiting this site. Which would in turn, probably be shut down for lack of use.
This list clinches it - they have absolutely lost touch with the "PC" world.
Last edited by shockz on 29 Dec 2007 - 17:25
They might as well rename themselves HPWorld!
hey shockz. Why don't you go delete s post that actually causes a concern.....
hey shockz. Why don't you go delete s post that actually causes a concern.....
Like publicly criticizing a mod's decision?
well, here's the foolishness of some mods who have more power than they should.
which then I said (or close to it, don't have the actual wording anymore)
"I bet you typed that on an iphone"
and you know what happened? I not only get the post removed but I get a warning!
wtf?
absolute power corrupts absolutely is the Neowin motto for some mods.
bah.
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