Sorry but biometrics have been on Windows laptops and smartphones for years. It's that kind of mindset that people have that Apple invents everything and others follow. The only thing that Apple was ever first with was capacitive screens, that's it. Siri is a much better version of WinMo's "Tell Me" so don't bring that one up. Tell Me is the reason Cortana is so good right off the bat. MS has had years to improve on the system and it shows. There were app stores before iTunes, just not as polished. ActiveSync/WMDC was better than iTunes in many respects, just not as polished. Yet Apple has the cojones to sue other companies for copying what they had shamelessly stolen before. God bless America.
I'm sorry if I didn't clarify. Apple isn't known as one of the main innovators, but what I like about them is that they bring back dead ideas and sometimes implement awesome ideas from other types of devices.
Obviously biometrics existed way before TouchID came, but I am talking about the way it was implemented. The TouchID integrated into the home button is amazing, and I really like the concept over having a sensor on the back or what Samsung has done.
Features such as TouchID had come on phones before, but they honestly sucked. Apple just showed off the first truly complete fingerprint sensor.
Slow-mo is also a feature that existed on professional video cameras, and HTC added it to phones first if I am not wrong, but Apple went a step further and went to 120 FPS slow-mo. Which other OEMs later also added, now Apple has added 240FPS slow-mo.
Understand what I'm trying to say? The way they bring back dead ideas or improve on existing ones is what I like about Apple.