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GitHub

GitHub did not invent collaboration — it productised the friction out of Git-based teamwork.
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IOS

iOS wasn’t born open—it was forced open, one SDK announcement at a time.
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9:44

Siri

Siri didn’t invent voice control—it outsourced understanding to Nuance and offloaded thinking to the cloud.
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9:38

Xbox

It wasn’t about games—it was about turning Windows into a console OS and broadband into a requirement.