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10 Years Ago Today: Steve Jobs Introduces the iPhone
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My MacBook is almost 10 years old....but no, I'm just a Mac user that doesn't feel the need to take a day off of work to wait for the FedEx delivery and watch unboxing videos every time a new product with more and more useless features comes out.
Damn, time flies!
I remember 10 years ago I had been following the rumors of the iPhone and nobody knew what it would look like or what it would do, with most people creating mockups containing a bunch of buttons and the iPod wheel since that was normal at the time.
To finally see it shown off was mind blowing!
I remember people even thinking it was so cool that you could scroll up and down the screen by just dragging your finger.
Smartphones today owe their entire existence to the iPhone and I'm proud to be an iPhone fanboy who has used the superior iPhone since the days when Android users were still using cheap plastic flip phones.
Happy 10th birthday iPhone!
I remember 10 years ago I had been following the rumors of the iPhone and nobody knew what it would look like or what it would do, with most people creating mockups containing a bunch of buttons and the iPod wheel since that was normal at the time.
To finally see it shown off was mind blowing!
I remember people even thinking it was so cool that you could scroll up and down the screen by just dragging your finger.
Smartphones today owe their entire existence to the iPhone and I'm proud to be an iPhone fanboy who has used the superior iPhone since the days when Android users were still using cheap plastic flip phones.
Happy 10th birthday iPhone!
No other iPhone have brought so many new, and so big features to the table. This is not so strange really, because you can only add say, a front camera, once to a phone. When you have it, then you have it. And once you have it then all you can do is iterate on it.
The only uniquely new feature of the iPhone 7 is water proofing. Dual cameras in the 7+, stereo speakers, the solid-state home button; those and all the other changes are merely iterating and improving on what is already there.
Not knocking, btw; improving stuff is great! We all love better everything. However, when it comes to bringing new new, the iPhone 4 stands out above all thus far. It is going to be really hard to top.
Looking at that first picture of the side by side to the 7 comparison, I'm reminded of how much I really miss how compact the iPhone used to be. I have an SE, but even that's too big for me. Man I loved that first iPhone, size shape and feel. The only imperfection was that plastic bit on the bottom backside.
That wasn't my question, thanks. I realize you feel personally attacked since, looking at your posts, they're all negative, too, but... yeah. You don't have to feel the need to respond.
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All Keynotes from this point forward should be CGI Steve Jobs - like they did Tarkin and Leia in Rogue One,
Yeah that was the point of the rest of my post. In this hypothetical, since he hasn't been a working engineer for decades, he wouldn't be of value as an engineer. Since he's spent the time instead becoming more of an enthusiast of technology in general and the direction of it, he might actually provide Apple with more forward-thinking vision than they have on hand currently, which gauging by their product line appears to be next to none.
As well, attempts to distance himself or not, returning to a company you started in an advisory role brings a level of connectedness and dedication like a parent reconnecting with an estranged child. I've done it, and seen it, and your best effort comes out when you get that rare second chance. ...Jobs did it as well.
Not to mention, the PR opportunity.
I wasn't actually serious when I posted that, but now that I think of it...
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Me too... I really miss the early year announcements, quickly followed by the Developers Conference announcements and then the fall... for several years in a row it was a non-stop Apple fest. Now it seems like we're always waiting for something. And don't get me wrong... I love apple products, but I also loved being blown away from time to time.
Looking back at it, it was a game changing announcement. At the time it was a gimmicky device. I bought one on a whim the day after launch. 2gb I think. I was amazed that I had the REAL internet in my pocket. But it could not yet replace a blackberry for productivity. It wasn't until iPhone 4 that I came back.
Original iPhone was revolutionary to devices for the time. It's since been an evolution.
There was a time when Apple would release a brand new product that would create a brand new market. People are eager for something brand new like a TV or a Car or a Brain.
I do remember being in awe at the iPhone introduction. Haven't felt that way about a single electronic device introduced since.
"Splash and water resistant", not, "waterproofing". Two different things, as in: "hover board" and "self-balancing scooter".
"Splash and water resistant", not, "waterproofing". Two different things, as in: "hover board" and "self-balancing scooter".
Wow 10 years already!! I was in high school at that time and had a Motorola Razr. When I saw the iPhone I was so blown away because it looked so ahead of it's time especially compared to my phone! Here's to another 10 years of the iPhone which, in my opinion, is still the best smart phone on the market.
“So, your kids must love the iPad?” I asked Mr. Jobs, trying to change the subject. The company’s first tablet was just hitting the shelves.
“They haven’t used it,” he told me. “We limit how much technology our kids use at home.”
I’m sure I responded with a gasp and dumbfounded silence. I had imagined the Jobs’s household was like a nerd’s paradise: that the walls were giant touch screens, the dining table was made from tiles of iPads and that iPods were handed out to guests like chocolates on a pillow.
Nope, Mr. Jobs told me, not even close.
- NY Times, 2014
Additionally, Jobs' biographer wrote that, every evening, Steve made a point of having dinner at the big long table in their kitchen, discussing books and history and a variety of things. They never pulled out a phone or tablet.
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Timelines like this are what really make me realize just how stagnant iPhone "innovation" has become since about 2012... really nothing new and amazing. Samsung\Google released most things before apple and now has stuff like wireless charging, fast charge, 2x the battery life, etc. Just seems like apple had a strong out-the-gate, and then got a cramp, meanwhile everyone else passed by. Guess complacency wasn't learned from Nokia, Sony, Blackberry, Palm, etc. :-(
Celebrating the past.....in the fastest moving industry ever created.....I would say any looking back is stupid and rather sad.
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and what would be wrong with accelerating the pace on this one occa
i didnt make any comparisons, I was just pointing out that a premium price should (and mostly with Apple) does go with premium quality