3. Personal computer
It was the first time a computer came pre-assembled, making it more attractive to a larger group of consumers. Increasing the demand for the product.
Radio Shack's TRS-80
2. Online Music
Following the events after the iPod was released Apple invented a library filled with music called iTunes. At launched it only had 200,000 songs. He struggled to impress people that this was the next big thing because people weren't convinced that online music market would be successful. Although it took them 2 years to convince the people iTunes would go off to selling one million songs in its first week and by December it had sold 25 million songs.
1. ipad
The iPad was a mixture of a computer and a iPhone hybrid. During this period many company's tried to create a tablet but weren't really successful putting pressure on Jobs with his product. Critics believed that Jobs had lost his vision in technology.
One thing that helped with the success of the device was that newspapers and magazines would release their versions of the publications for the iPad. Steve Jobs would later go on and say that this was by far the most important product of his life. When the iPad launched they had an iPad App Store with thousands of apps ready for download. On the date of its release they sold about 300,000 iPad's.