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10 Years Ago Today: Steve Jobs Introduces the iPhone
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Truly the one device I couldn't imagine my life without. Still the best smartphone by far.
I used cellphones since 1996, but it all now seems to have happened in another lifetime.
I used cellphones since 1996, but it all now seems to have happened in another lifetime.
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Peace Keeper • a day ago
in the years 2006 - 2007 Apple invented the EGO technology with their i series (NO we, he or she, only i) and Apple moved from making computers for professionals to making toys for the boys and girls who feel that their personality isn't enough to make them look cool in the eyes of others, so we started seeing the boys, girls and college students carry the i phone, i pad, i book and any other i, and less and less pro people buy these overpriced toys for business, now as the i wave started fading away with cool devices form Samsung, HP, Dell, Lenovo and others started showing up for less price, more technology and more options and the people who camp out side Apple stores weeks before new iToy launch reduced to zero, we didn't hear about kids trying to k i l l parents for not buying the new iToys in the last two years, in the same time pro people replaced the fool expensive ( i ) with the better and less expensive (Think) from Lenovo or the many offers from Dell, Acer and HP or the new wave from ASUS,MSI and Gigabyte.
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The beginning of the end for social interactions and the era we pretended to strangers we actually gave a **** with a like button.
Peace Keeper • a day ago
in the years 2006 - 2007 Apple invented the EGO technology with their i series (NO we, he or she, only i) and Apple moved from making computers for professionals to making toys for the boys and girls who feel that their personality isn't enough to make them look cool in the eyes of others, so we started seeing the boys, girls and college students carry the i phone, i pad, i book and any other i, and less and less pro people buy these overpriced toys for business, now as the i wave started fading away with cool devices form Samsung, HP, Dell, Lenovo and others started showing up for less price, more technology and more options and the people who camp out side Apple stores weeks before new iToy launch reduced to zero, we didn't hear about kids trying to k i l l parents for not buying the new iToys in the last two years, in the same time pro people replaced the fool expensive ( i ) with the better and less expensive (Think) from Lenovo or the many offers from Dell, Acer and HP or the new wave from ASUS,MSI and Gigabyte.
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The beginning of the end for social interactions and the era we pretended to strangers we actually gave a **** with a like button.
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Ten years ago today, Steve Jobs tried to convince us we'd love typing on glass, scared the hell out of Andy Rubin, and lit the wick of a bomb under BlackBerry's butt.
And ten years since apple no longer cared about being a company that made the best computers for working creative professionals...
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I don't think there's any correlation between the removal of the headphone jack and a decline in sales. The market is overly saturated right now for all smartphone manufacturers and not as many people are upgrading.
One of the best product presentations, for any product, ever. Damn I've watched that keynote many times...
Mannnnn it seems like YESTERDAY. Jeez.
Such a historic moment. I'm 25 years old and that was one of the best technology reveals I've ever seen to this day. Game changer in every sense of the phrase.
Such a historic moment. I'm 25 years old and that was one of the best technology reveals I've ever seen to this day. Game changer in every sense of the phrase.
This is depressing really. Apple are no longer innovators but 'toner heads'. Apple is a vast company - but it needs to start acting like a small upstart.
Time really flies when you're getting older.
Looking forward to this years 10th anniversary edition.
Looking forward to this years 10th anniversary edition.
Thank you. People are so blind and delusional that they don't realize Apple has been more or less the SAME since the beginning. There were mistakes and disappointments then and there are mistakes and disappointments now.
Things were priced high then and they're priced high now.
Get over it people.
"A charging socket, a data interface, and a headphone socket. These are not three separate industry-standard ports. This is one port. And we call it courageous"
who would have thought that Nokia and blackberry wouldn’t be dominating, both of them had 95% market share, and now it’s all gone.
10 years...
I have had (and still have) every iPhone (except the 5C)
I had to import the 1st iPhone over from the US (hugely costly back then...) and had to jailbreak it to make it work over here in NL. At first it was via creepy terminal commands from the Mac and took some time and effort te get it to work.
Later is was simply installing an app via SFTP and executing that from the iPhone itself.
Anyone remember:
user: root
passwd: alpine
The iPhone 4 was my favourite (all things considered). The most beautiful phone ever made, and the competition was nowhere.
Now, TBH, my annual upgrade is far less "magical". I loved the introduction of Touch ID on the 5S, but after that, the updates have become very "incremental" indeed, and it is difficult to see if I use my 6, 6S or 7.
I have had (and still have) every iPhone (except the 5C)
I had to import the 1st iPhone over from the US (hugely costly back then...) and had to jailbreak it to make it work over here in NL. At first it was via creepy terminal commands from the Mac and took some time and effort te get it to work.
Later is was simply installing an app via SFTP and executing that from the iPhone itself.
Anyone remember:
user: root
passwd: alpine
The iPhone 4 was my favourite (all things considered). The most beautiful phone ever made, and the competition was nowhere.
Now, TBH, my annual upgrade is far less "magical". I loved the introduction of Touch ID on the 5S, but after that, the updates have become very "incremental" indeed, and it is difficult to see if I use my 6, 6S or 7.
Wouldn't a saturated market mean that sales figures would be constant rather than declining?
For example, if everyone that had a phone upgraded on a two year cycle, then there would be a constant sales figures.
One of the best keynotes. I will never forget my excitement leading up to the release of the original iPhone. There were so many doubters and nobody saw how much it was going to completely change the mobile phone market.
Waiting in line and picking up the phone for the first time really was a great experience. It felt so advanced and unlike anything we'd seen before. I can't say I've had anything close to that feeling with a tech product since, but I hope to again whether it's an Apple product or some other company.
Waiting in line and picking up the phone for the first time really was a great experience. It felt so advanced and unlike anything we'd seen before. I can't say I've had anything close to that feeling with a tech product since, but I hope to again whether it's an Apple product or some other company.
The iPhone over the last 10 years it can probably be said is the best pocket computer ever invented, it changed the game in so many ways.... BUT people looking back have rose tinted glasses.
The first iPhone did not go very well in the sense the 4GB model stored hardly anything, in the UK these models were sold off in massive numbers by O2, at a huge discount of £169.99 brand new. Software for the first year was minimal at best and most people going to the iPhone were taking a step back going from 3G to 2G. Same as business customers did not move over during the first generation, they moved over at the iPhone 3G/3GS and the app store being introduced.
The best iPhone design for me has been the iPhone 4/4s, the screen, the design of the hardware and iOS software design - At that time couldn't be touched by any other manufacturer. Even if there was a bit of scandal about it - antennas and the white version launching late.
The first iPhone did not go very well in the sense the 4GB model stored hardly anything, in the UK these models were sold off in massive numbers by O2, at a huge discount of £169.99 brand new. Software for the first year was minimal at best and most people going to the iPhone were taking a step back going from 3G to 2G. Same as business customers did not move over during the first generation, they moved over at the iPhone 3G/3GS and the app store being introduced.
The best iPhone design for me has been the iPhone 4/4s, the screen, the design of the hardware and iOS software design - At that time couldn't be touched by any other manufacturer. Even if there was a bit of scandal about it - antennas and the white version launching late.
Compared to what? Android phones which are $200.00 more for glitchy software? Or are you going to respond by stating the iPhone is fragmented and non-innovative that nobody wants anymore.
If Apple keeps delivering premium hardware and features I actually use, coupled with OS security, they can have my money any day.
Dare I point out the similarities to the panic of not having a physical keyboard back then to the current panic of not having a headphone jack?
I really thought it would be a bigger deal than it is. At first I was very hesitant. Then the idea of a jet black phone that felt like my favorite 5c won me over.
No regrets.
He keeps saying that for the past couple of years... and it's only getting worse.
Although we do know they're reducing the numbers they're manufacturing due to lower demand.
I'd say it's a weak correlation. We are one chip process away from literately hitting the wall, so after the iPhone 8, there will be no leaps in CPU/GPU power without either consuming more power (with larger batteries) or making the screen smaller so it requires less GPU power.
What I expect is that Apple will just "shrink ray" the iPhone and make the smaller phone 4" again, but increase the thickness to maintain the battery life, while keeping the "+" models for all the less useful features that people ask for but are impractical in a smaller phone.
I wouldn't be surprised if Apple comes out with a camcorder/DSLR body that you just snap the smaller iPhone in, or several other similar devices where the iPhone is the brains of a more capable device.