According to righto.com, Apple's famed power supply innovations—often celebrated as a design triumph—actually rode on the broader advances in transistor efficiency happening across the electronics industry. As semiconductors became more powerful and generated less heat, power supplies naturally became smaller and more elegant. The real lesson: Apple excelled at minimalist industrial design and integration, but the underlying revolution came from semiconductor advances, not from Cupertino.

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