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16 Years Ago Today, Steve Jobs Introduced the iPhone
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it took years for iOS to add some of the neat features that SymbianOS had, like timed user profiles (profiles that could be turned on during a meeting, that would silence your phone, and then automatically expire). I've never thought the slide switch on the iPhone was a great idea. Only in the last couple of years did we get Focus, and the ability to silence the phone based on different factors.
I still miss some of the icons that came with the early versions of iOS.
I was quite partial to Palm Inc.'s Treo line, along with Handspring's cell phone Springboard module hardware extension. They're no longer around, but they do get credit for "being the first".
I agree on that one, but it's because of the focus to streaming songs rather than playing albums that has destroyed the "Music" app.
As a Palm Treo owner at the time, I knew. 😉
True. Google Maps was available on Palm OS devices about eight months before the iPhone went on sale.
Well how could you have known back then? If I was smarter I would've bought as many as I could back then 😂
I'd pay that price for a current-gen iPhone that had the OS design of pre-iOS 7 with the current features
I don't believe that Airdrop was the last major improvement; what about Apple Pay, Touch ID, Face ID?
That camera bump was something that I honestly thought would be a bump anymore after the iPhone 7 and beyond but was in fact quite the opposite; it just kept getting bigger and bigger
Same, I feel that the pre iOS 7 was the better design (although I love the Control center and other features that iOS 7+ brought)
Minor conveniences IMO. I already have my debit card handy at all times, and it's still faster to have no passcode than bother with Touch ID and Face ID.
Do you live in a big city?
I haven’t taken a wallet with me in a couple years in London (outside of travel) and the fast pay option on Apple Watch / phone is a lot more used than airdrop, which is limited to other apple devices.
Apple Pay has been the single most convenient feature apple has given me (outside of the world on a screen in my pocket)
I have one that I bought more than 10 years ago; it's as banged up as I thought it would be when I got it and still isn't. Sadly, my sim card never worked on it.Mint condition in box, who needs a solid 2g device
I’m going to dissect mine and frame it.
Yes I do. When my wallet is essentially just a holder for travel/bank cards, and I use an iPhone 4, I think the combined size and weight is far less than a modern iPhone / iPhone Pro, and that matters to me more.
Then Apple Pay isn’t a minor inconvenience for you since you don’t have an iPhone that supports it. Apple Pay is hella convenient, you don’t have to take out your wallet then your card then put it back in your wallet and put your wallet back in your pocket
Agree 100% on apple pay / wallet.
I was in a 2 week business trip to Japan , bought a subway “PASMO” card, uploaded it to apple wallet. Multi times daily just apple iPhone quick touch the sensor as walked thru gate. Easy to add more yen in the phone.
