These anniversaries are always a chance to re-watch the keynote and remind myself why I used to have a Yahoo email address.
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16 Years Ago Today, Steve Jobs Introduced the iPhone
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Yes live in front off an audience, in a theatre setting, definitely has more of a buzz about it!
Although I didn't embrace the iphone at first, I did grow to embrace it. Apple through hard work and ingenuity killed off some of the competition.
I think that’s an interesting perspective.
For me it’s a tool. Like most tools it can be used in a variety of ways.
When I think of my photos, videos, chats with friends, directions received, etc. the good clearly outweighs any bad for me. I don’t do social media. To me that’s the only obvious downside I can think of.
Steve saved us from the Blackberry format “smartphone”.
cisco had the trademark on IOS. That’s the name of the operating system running in their devices.
iPhone trademark belonged to a Mexican and ro a Brazilian company if I don’t remember any better.
I remember watching the iPhone introduction and looking at my then work provided Palm Treo and knowing its connectivity was just complete crap. Sure, it worked fine for sending emails, but that was about the extent of its online use. I ended up ordering two iPhones, at the higher launch price.
The most influential tech device in our lives today is the smartphone.
Thanks to Jobs, the entire team that worked on the iPhone, Apple, and Apple's competitors - which constantly changed the mobile industry landscape in these last 16 years - smartphones became mainstream, affordable, and, ultimately, ubiquitous.
No. As Carlin said, the planet is fine. The people are f'ed.
The same applies to tech. Delete all social media, and you'll see a smartphone is a great tool.
Thanks to Jobs, the entire team that worked on the iPhone, Apple, and Apple's competitors - which constantly changed the mobile industry landscape in these last 16 years - smartphones became mainstream, affordable, and, ultimately, ubiquitous.
No. As Carlin said, the planet is fine. The people are f'ed.
The same applies to tech. Delete all social media, and you'll see a smartphone is a great tool.
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So iconic and history was made. Steve Jobs changed the world by introducing an iPhone.
There is nothing wrong with the product / technology. The problem squarely lies with people. People always find a way to take something good and pervert it.
I'm fairly sure when Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone, he wasn't thinking it was going to be used to for heavy breather phone calls.
That's the story of the ages with us humans. Technical advances through the years, decades and centuries have had the ability to transform our lives as well as destroy our lives.
Carlin was (still is, RIP) a legend, and his words still ring true and eerily accurate.
Sadly, it just means we have learned nothing and keep repeating the same mistakes.
We were more than ready for it. Unfortunately the technology ends up in the wrong hands so you now can't go to a concert without 1000's of idiots waving their phones in the air and completely missing the event they paid money to see as they are too busy filming it in portrait mode & spoiling everyone's view.
It's also accelerated the subscription model whereby you can rarely pay a one-off price for an app. Instead your are perpetually drip feeding cash monthly/annually into subscription based services/apps/games that rarely use this money to actually improve what you are paying for.
Due to greed most games are now pay to win/do anything useful as well.
Then there's the people who just cant stop taking photos of themselves and sharing the pics, hoping someone somewhere actually cares enough to give them the validation they desperately want.
Its a right old mess.
If you go to concerts only the first point really affects you personally.
Also there are still many people who eschew smartphones for flip phones.
If that were the worst use of smartphones, society would be pretty great.
This is way worse, especially when those photos are used by others for cyberbullying - increasingly more common between teenagers/young adults.
No, iPhone.
Source:
Apple, Cisco settle iPhone trademark lawsuit
The agreement allows the two companies to use the iPhone brand on their own products.
www.cnet.com
Isn’t that because of Google being anticompetitive with limitations they put in place?
$499 (4GB) and $599 (8GB) were subsidized in the sense that they were with 2 year AT&T contacts. Without the contract, prices would've been even higher. $499 and $599 in today's dollars would be around $715 and $860 which, again, was with a 2 year AT&T contract.
The minimum price for an AT&T contract was $59.99/month for 450 anytime minutes, 200 SMS text messages, and 5,000 night and weekend minutes. $59.99 in today's dollars would be around $86 and that wasn't even for an "unlimited" plan.
Of course, Apple/AT&T did seem to quickly realize the phone prices were too high and slashed them by $200 within just three months of launch. To appease ticked off early adopters who had paid the higher price, Apple gave them $100 gift cards.