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by jfoutz 5098 days ago
Well, the move away from spinning rust to flash seems like a pretty big deal. Also B&W to color was the kind of upgrade television milked for a generation.
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Everything that you mentioned, and also: the relentless miniaturization. That took a lot of engineering.

It's emphasized in the video linked to in the OP, but it disappears in the images linked in the response above, which are not proportional. Here's a side-by-side comparison:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4b/IPod_5G-4...

About iPod miniaturization, see also the iPod-in-water story:

http://todayilearned.co.uk/2011/10/09/jobs-dropped-the-first...

All these years later, and with the new MBP, they're still pushing system miniaturization, flash memory, and high-res color displays. It's a straight line in some respects.