5 things that Apple killed and helped technology move forward

Whether you like Apple or not, it's hard to argue that the company takes some bold risks and does certain things years before the competition dares to do them.

The list of features, ports and drives that Apple is killed is probably longer than similar achievements of all its Windows rivals combined, but since we're a mobile-first website, we were curious to reminisce and look back at the things that seemed like a necessity, an indispensable part of the phone and mobile computing experience that Apple killed.

5 THINGS THAT WERE CONSIDERED INEVITABLE BEFORE APPLE KILLED THEM

Of course, that is a walk back further down memory lane, back to the original iPhone in many ways, but also a thing to give you more perspective when you are contemplating whether or not Apple was right to remove the 3.5mm headset jack in modern times. Of course, the particular reason why Apple kills a particular feature differs, but there is one common motif: the company is doing this to advance the future of technology in the way that it imagines it.

Here are the five key steps it took in mobile, the 5 technologies that Apple killed for this grand idea.

#1: The stylus as a necessity