Ancients speak on the first iPhone

[HolyGrail]

I love how MacRumors archives everything. It allows us to look back on history. Any of you guys read this thread back in the day? Back when the blackberry was King?

Here's an example of a quote from the thread.

What can apple really offer in the pda market that phones like the treos, htc's nokias & blackberrys dont already offer?

I mean come on one thing is to adore a company, buts its another when people just want a cool factor phone with ipod capabilities?

I really dont see any type of break thourgh functionality beiong deployed by apple.

Plus stop calling it iPhone please.

I remember in an interview where the owner of this site and another mac related website where asked
about why they think an apple phone would be so much better then veteran companies that push design and functionality already in the
cell phone market. Their whole answer was based around iPod, they did not answer the question properly. All they kept saying is ipod functionality and ease of use. Seriously motorola appeals to the young and hip (razr) nokia pushes technology and sleek designs into its phones. Treo and blackberrys appeal to business and end users both in functionality and looks. You have Htc's etc.

Last i checked the iPod was a music player far from a phone-Also last i checked apple had 0 experience in the cell phone market.
Apple is very predictable just look at their history they re-writte their own products and evolutionize it-and pass it as INNOVATIVE
an apple cell phone is most likely in the works i mean they had the newton before (flopped) they had the apple tv and the experimental set top box (both flopped) and now their bringing back those same ideas in hopes they nail it the second time around.

But in all honesty aopple should just stick to making computers thats what we know them by. They have failed horribly on other bussiness ventures and i think they will not succeed in the phone market. Too many well established cell phone makers out there that have an extreme amount of epxrience in this market. Their phones have been recreated after years and years to pefection to appeal.

A cell phone with ipod capabilites and nothing else? I have a slvr that do just that. So basically people are willing to spend up to 600 dollars for a apple branded slvr? WOW are you the same ones complaining about gas prices when they go up?

I will pass get on with the computers apple

https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/265898/

 

[aprofetto8]

I just skimmed through the thread. What a cool read.

Seems people were really hung up on the whole iPod being turned into a phone aspect that really nobody saw what was coming.

Even when you watch the first iPhone keynote, now a days it seems so archaic, when Jobs shows off the way the scrolling works, etc. But back when he introduced it, it's hard to appreciate what smartphones looked like and functioned like.

I've always only owned an iPhone. But it's cool to see what Apple was able to bring the smartphone industry to what we know today. I often wonder if Jobs/Apple was never around, what would smartphones be like today from a design point of view. I guess you could argue it would've gotten to where it is one way or another.

Anyways, cool read nonetheless.

 

[emir]

Wow. What can I say... This just goes to show how much us contemplators around tech and Apple world lack vision. I remember thinking of the original iPad as just a giant iPod touch. I definitely lack vision...

 

[aprofetto8]

Wow. What can I say... This just goes to show how much us contemplators around tech and Apple world lack vision. I remember thinking of the original iPad as just a giant iPod touch. I definitely lack vision...

I live in Canada, when the first iPad was announced, it was in US Apple stores before Canada Apple stores had it (can't remember the exact spread).

Anyways, I had visited the US and I posted a picture of me holding one on Facebook, and I got absolutely ripped apart. I hadn't even purchased it, literally just held it.

Comments were of the sort "Don't tell me you bought that!", "It's just a giant iPod!", "Eww", "I don't see the point of a product like that", etc.

I don't buy things, especially phones, tablets, etc to gain peoples approval, I was more just excited to actually see one and be able to play with it. I wasn't surprised people were giving those kind of comments, but what's funny now is, everyone who ripped it apart on my Facebook picture now owns one themselves.

 

[justinTlME]

Lol, that post is classic! Hope he enjoys his slvr!