11 Most Innovative Companies in the World

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8. Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL)

Analysts have started to question Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL)’s innovation and whether the company will be able to sustain its vigor in the coming years amid a lack of new, out-of-the-box ideas. But the fact remains that the company heralded an era of unprecedented change in the world by launching the iPhone in 2007. Today, the smartphone market has a total value of about $355 billion. Apple remains the trend-setter in the smartphone industry. Its latest innovative idea, to remove the headphone jack from iPhones, shocked the world (the world gets shocked rather easily), but a year later, Apple’s fierce competitor Alphabet removed the headphone jack from its devices too. Apple has also started to launch innovative products in new segments like wearables and smart home.

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