I wonder if his own kids looked at him as a father figure.
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16 Years Ago Today, Steve Jobs Introduced the iPhone
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His "sweet solution". I remember. And that was the reason Safari for Windows existed. He needed more developers por web apps on the iPhone.
"PC guys are not gonna come here and take the market" said one of the executives from a rival company at the time. One of those companies that went out of business a few years later.
Writing this post on purpose on my huge iOS device with my stylus 🤔
Wow... 16 years... somehow still feels like yesterday. I feel old now !
From then my life forever changed. Been with iPhone ever since!
My old RAZR was good enough. Then I met a girl with a cool little iPhone. Sync happened.
16 years, only.
Since that date, Nokia, Ericsson, Siemens (mobile part), Motorola, Blackberry... are either dead or just a ghost of what they were.
My phone is now sufficiently powerful to fully replace my computer (only limitation: screen size. I don't want a large phone in my pocket, I don't want a tiny screen on my computer).
Since that date, Nokia, Ericsson, Siemens (mobile part), Motorola, Blackberry... are either dead or just a ghost of what they were.
My phone is now sufficiently powerful to fully replace my computer (only limitation: screen size. I don't want a large phone in my pocket, I don't want a tiny screen on my computer).
Hands down the single most impactful invention during my lifetime. This is how it must have felt to see the first cars and airplanes. We live in wonderful times.
Siemens Mobile already got sold to BenQ in 2005. They couldn't even compete with other dumbphones.
Shhhh, it's an Apple Pencil. Totally different thing.
Unpopular opinion: Sometimes I think the world is worse off because of the advent of iPhones and smartphones at large. Perhaps everyone doesn't need the equivalent of a constantly connected super computer in their pockets. Maybe as a species we weren't ready for it.
I think the problem is not the smartphone per se but the social media. I don't use social media, any of them, and I mostly use my iPhone for browsing, taking pictures, take notes, organize things in Notion and some things more, but I don't use it constantly. My wife, on the other hand, uses her iPhone all the time, actually I think her right hand is a phone, and it's because social media.
And we still don't have Gmail Push notifications :-D
If you work round it by setting it up as an exchange account it gives push notifications. That said it may be a Workspace only thing. I have an ancient domain that I set up years ago for most of my mail that is grandfathered by Google so I haven’t used normal Gmail in years.
Well, styluses ( Styli? Stylus's? ) were just plastic pointers to press the restive screen. Ironically they didn't work on the iPhone with it's capacitive screen. I had one of the 3rd part pens with a weird disc on the the end for paining on an early iPad. It kinda worked. They still Make them for older devices.
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Didn't Steve Jobs state at the time that the phone ran a version of (Mac) OS X, not "iPhoneOS"?
A few years later, someone tracked down and interviewed the barista who took the call...
Here is the article.
Revolutionized how the world communicates in the palm of your hands, for better or for worse. Yet you still can’t put icons where you want or snooze calendar events at your own interval.
A friend in my office had the first iPhone I had ever seen. He gave me a 5 minute demo that had me running out the door to buy one and switch carriers because only ATT had them.
I could watch Star Trek on my phone. Mmmwahhahaha!
I could watch Star Trek on my phone. Mmmwahhahaha!
I'd spent the week reading about all the CES news on Engadget and after following their liveblog of the iPhone event I realised Apple had suddenly made every product on show that year obsolete.
OOPS,
In 2007 : iPhone revenues $ 123 Millions, on $ 24 Bn total.
In 2021 : $ 192 Bn, on $ 365 Billions
In 2007 : iPhone revenues $ 123 Millions, on $ 24 Bn total.
In 2021 : $ 192 Bn, on $ 365 Billions
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