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10 Years Ago Today: Steve Jobs Introduces the iPhone
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And I always find it funny when someone who is probably not a shareholder calls others a troll. Sad.I always think it's funny when someone claims to be "an angry shareholder" to justify their trolling. Cute
I think we can easily put Steve Jobs in the same category with geniuses like Galileo Galilei, Isaac Newton, Michael Faraday, James Clerk Maxwell and Albert Einstein just to name few. They all changed the world in their own time in very unique way. They will allways be remembered too!
Thank You Steve!
Thank You Steve!
A correlation is found to everything anything these days. I mean what would physically stop a GENERAL consumer from buying the 7/7plus when it comes with FREE adapters. Either these posters are paid shrills or they too look for any and every reason not to upgrade.
The camera on the 7 Plus is WELL WORTH the upgrade this cycle all by itself.
Hands down it's MY bet that MORE consumers are FOCUSED on camera abilities like selfies etc than are suffering from diarrhea in these forums about the fing headphone jack.
Get on with your lives. Apple did. They changed the plug. It's not coming back so why o why keep harping on that CHANGE.
MY BET is that the plug change has more importance in the NEXT iPhone and peripherals than the 7
P.S. Are many of you legitimately worried that not one CEM will adapt a product with a lighting connector? Even if Apple "only" sells 200 million iPhones, iPads, etc this year -- that's still a HUGE fing market to service for audio.
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Jobs was nowhere even close to those giants of science you mention.
After his death, when an interviewer tried to compare Jobs to Edison, his friend Wozniak was very taken aback. No, he said, someone like Edison actually knew technology and did some hands on inventing.
On the other hand, Jobs had little technical knowledge. He didn't know how to design a circuit, nor did he know how to program a line of code.
Instead, Jobs was a very clever salesman with a fine finger on the consumer pulse. He knew something desirable when he saw it. He pushed his employees to redesign things until he liked them.
Basically he was the ultimate user, with the power to say "no!" to anything that was too complicated or too boring.
That was his real forte, and it's what I think is missing from Apple today: someone with the power to say "no" to design-by-committee, and enough sense of style to know when to say it.
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I remember the first time I saw the original iPhone. It appeared on PhoneScoop which I used to check on for news before making video reviews and GSM Arena my mainstay. I had a Sony PSP and 5th gen white iPod (video) and that iPhone just ******* on my devices when it came to design. I didn't own a smartphone yet because many of us had RAZRs around 2005-2006. I remember seeing the iPhone turn into Cover Flow and it blew my mind. I preferred Scott Forstall's style of the iPhone OS. Not Jony's. While this was happening, I was also on Howard Forums. Now HF was very Nokia-biased. The N95 was a phone that was more popular on there than the iPhone.
I thought the luster wore off quickly on iPhone once everyone started owning one. I just came from the bus today and I see people just playing with iPhones like no big deal. It has become the Honda Civic and Toyota Corolla of phones. People forget it didn't have apps that first year and it only had 128mb RAM. You tried jailbreaking it and using Summer or Winterboard, and the thing would crash like there was no tomorrow. I think I have far more fond memories of it being announced leading up to its release than when I actually owned a 2G twice. I probably owned 10 better phones than that og iPhone. The experience on it was still rough because it only got updated to iOS3 and ran slow by then, low RAM, no copy and paste until 3.0, no LED flash, no video recording unless it was JB which was a measly 15 fps, and no front camera.
I don't have rose gold-colored glasses to realize how crappy that first iPhone was when using it although the battery held up surprisingly well after 5+ years. But the Steve Jobs' announcement was far more epic looking back at it. This was the greatest keynote he ever had surpassing the Macintosh, iPod, and iPad. It's cool to look back and know that iPhone will turn 10 this year. Well, Star Wars will turn 40 this year but no Carrie to celebrate it. DVD and the film Titanic turns 20 this year. I just wished Apple gave the MacBook a proper 10-year anniversary model last year.
I thought the luster wore off quickly on iPhone once everyone started owning one. I just came from the bus today and I see people just playing with iPhones like no big deal. It has become the Honda Civic and Toyota Corolla of phones. People forget it didn't have apps that first year and it only had 128mb RAM. You tried jailbreaking it and using Summer or Winterboard, and the thing would crash like there was no tomorrow. I think I have far more fond memories of it being announced leading up to its release than when I actually owned a 2G twice. I probably owned 10 better phones than that og iPhone. The experience on it was still rough because it only got updated to iOS3 and ran slow by then, low RAM, no copy and paste until 3.0, no LED flash, no video recording unless it was JB which was a measly 15 fps, and no front camera.
I don't have rose gold-colored glasses to realize how crappy that first iPhone was when using it although the battery held up surprisingly well after 5+ years. But the Steve Jobs' announcement was far more epic looking back at it. This was the greatest keynote he ever had surpassing the Macintosh, iPod, and iPad. It's cool to look back and know that iPhone will turn 10 this year. Well, Star Wars will turn 40 this year but no Carrie to celebrate it. DVD and the film Titanic turns 20 this year. I just wished Apple gave the MacBook a proper 10-year anniversary model last year.
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How exactly is this a list of 'improvements'?
I loved the iphone 3g. Then the iphone 4 came out, and while it was easy to break (I never broke mine!), it was miles ahead of everything. High resolution, good looks, it had it all.
So what has Apple done since then? Sit on their asses bragging about how much better their phones are, while Android makers have more then caught up. Now it's personal preference to get an iPhone
I loved the iphone 3g. Then the iphone 4 came out, and while it was easy to break (I never broke mine!), it was miles ahead of everything. High resolution, good looks, it had it all.
So what has Apple done since then? Sit on their asses bragging about how much better their phones are, while Android makers have more then caught up. Now it's personal preference to get an iPhone
I charged up my Original iPhone today.
When trying to sign into Gmail I got a email from Google on my other devices that a login was attempted on a less secure app.
I was able to sign into the old Twitter app. When looking at a tweet from someone it shows what platform was used.
Doing a search in Safari is relatively quick.
Just a few seconds slower than my 7 Plus.
But the original iPhone isn't loading the same content as the 7 Plus.
Google Search on Original iPhone
Google Search on 7 Plus
I searched for the first name I heard on my television.
I remember friends saying I was nuts to even consider getting the original iPhone especially at $599.00 for the 8 Gig.
Sure was a game changer.
When trying to sign into Gmail I got a email from Google on my other devices that a login was attempted on a less secure app.
I was able to sign into the old Twitter app. When looking at a tweet from someone it shows what platform was used.
Doing a search in Safari is relatively quick.
Just a few seconds slower than my 7 Plus.
But the original iPhone isn't loading the same content as the 7 Plus.
Google Search on Original iPhone
Google Search on 7 Plus
I searched for the first name I heard on my television.
I remember friends saying I was nuts to even consider getting the original iPhone especially at $599.00 for the 8 Gig.
Sure was a game changer.
We don't need new words....we need better behavior !! It's actually doing what we know to do that escapes the majority.
No, but as everyone else points out sales were declining prior to the removal of the headphone jack.
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Is there a certified product to allow me to charge and use 3.5mm jack? (And not the solution where I have to use that manufacturers case)
No... Your comment was about declining iPhone sales correlating to Apple removing the headphone jack (even though the decline occurred before the recent iPhone 7 release when the jack was removed).
The decline is due to most people having phones, i.e. market saturation, with little need to upgrade year to year, as has been common in the past.
Which I already acknowledged. I guess it was more of a tongue in cheek dig at Apple than anything else.
Again you confuse saturation with the need to upgrade which are two completely different things.
Perhaps better written as decline is due to market saturation and little need for people to upgrade year to year...
Of course the best is yet to come. Like any tech company is going to produce products each year that are slower, have lower resolution screens, less memory, etc.
"Jobs teased the device as if it were three separate products: a widescreen iPod with touch controls, a revolutionary mobile phone, and a breakthrough internet communications device"
And to me that is always my favorite part, about the iPhone The magic of 'three separate devices, in one'
I get hooked on this every time i see the WWDC on iTunes.
I would say while Jobs criticized the Stylus... Apple today, just sticks on better technology, and calls it an "Apple pencil"
re-invented outdated tech, but with new built stuff like creativity and touch support in a new case., we can keep it going as a new revolution.
Never knew u could bring tech away from the dead by just a bunch of sensors to it, and look now we have a "piece of new technology" for several more years to come and distinct it away from the word "stylus" as something new.
When in fact it, it just does more.
And to me that is always my favorite part, about the iPhone
The magic of 'three separate devices, in one'I get hooked on this every time i see the WWDC on iTunes.
I would say while Jobs criticized the Stylus... Apple today, just sticks on better technology, and calls it an "Apple pencil"
re-invented outdated tech, but with new built stuff like creativity and touch support in a new case., we can keep it going as a new revolution.
Never knew u could bring tech away from the dead by just a bunch of sensors to it, and look now we have a "piece of new technology" for several more years to come and distinct it away from the word "stylus" as something new.
When in fact it, it just does more.
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Apple has done an incredible job with the iPhone. I own a 6s Plus and it's been incredible from day 1. Battery life, speed, ease-of-use and general build quality are incredible. Samsung makes nice phones and I like the idea of actually being "allowed" to download torrents but the build quality and overall experience aren't, IMO, as good as with the iPhone unless you specifically need to DL torrents or do something else iOS locks out.
Unfortunately, I have no praises for the current Mac lineup (or for Apple executives, for that matter). I still envision using an iPhone if Apple's de-facto abandonment of the Mac causes me to go back to a Windows desktop. I'd much prefer to run OS X but I refuse to pay current Apple retail just to be part of the Touch Bar Beta Test or for a Macbook with a single USB-C port.
I used to think it'd only be a matter of time before Apple became the first "trillion dollar company" but lately I'm starting to think a lot of their market share is ripe for takeover. Apple is getting more complacent than Hillary Clinton and, sooner or later, a company like Samsung (or Samsung their damn selves) is going to swoop in and steal that market share, regardless of whether or not they deserve to, because people are angry and looking for change and willing to do anything to get it. Personally, I have "Hope" that Apple will "Change" and "Make the Mac Great Again!"
Unfortunately, I have no praises for the current Mac lineup (or for Apple executives, for that matter). I still envision using an iPhone if Apple's de-facto abandonment of the Mac causes me to go back to a Windows desktop. I'd much prefer to run OS X but I refuse to pay current Apple retail just to be part of the Touch Bar Beta Test or for a Macbook with a single USB-C port.
I used to think it'd only be a matter of time before Apple became the first "trillion dollar company" but lately I'm starting to think a lot of their market share is ripe for takeover. Apple is getting more complacent than Hillary Clinton and, sooner or later, a company like Samsung (or Samsung their damn selves) is going to swoop in and steal that market share, regardless of whether or not they deserve to, because people are angry and looking for change and willing to do anything to get it. Personally, I have "Hope" that Apple will "Change" and "Make the Mac Great Again!"
Some remember holding their first child even more so.
You realize that this wasn't the first phone to have fast charge, right? It's not a new technology, but thanks for the lack of educated response.
And again you fail to understand they work hand-in-hand together. Without market saturation there is no issue. People already have what they need.
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It's not charging, it's discharging. But very fast indeed! If this would have happened to a new iPhone, #burngate would be the top news on all channels. Note 7 was probably the biggest disaster in the entire history of the phone industry and yet some people won't stop praising Samsung. I suspect these must be the same people, who treat Elon Musk like the new messiah, he never was. But in the era of post-truth technology, no wonder people are blinded by the Hyperloop.