do you think steve J would approve?

[Jimmy James]

I've asked many times what has apple innovated besides Touch ID since Jobs died? Don't get me wrong I still love apple products, but they don't seem to be too innovative anymore.

Apple seems to implement more than innovate. Even the revolution that was the original iPhone with multitouch was simply the adoption of someone else's tech.

Why do these types of posts so often fail to suggest the innovation we should be getting? Serve me and sell me something I don't even know I want yet? Every industry wishes their customers had their attitude. It seems gullible.

 

[Beenblacklisted]

do you think steve would have approved with using basically the same phone factor for 3 years now? what say you??

last time i checked apple is a for profit company who gives a flying fudge what the face of the company thinks...only thing that maters is $$$$.

 

[Mansu944]

Apple only sold it for about a year and a half. I don't believe they considered it a successful product if the discontinued it so quickly.

Successful or not, that thing sounded amazing for the day.

 

[pika2000]

well lets just be thankful to samsung for having the courage and innovation to boldly go were no smartphone maker would go at the time. but now they are all on the phablet bandwagon. if you can remember at the time all the other smartphones were small. and if you had a sammy phablet everyone would make fun of you for having such a device. but now most people have one. and some are even bigger than the first phablet. my how the times have changed.

Actually, the credit goes to Dell for making the first phablet, the 5" Dell Streak (was considered huge at that time). It was out a year before the first Galaxy Note. Samsung "won" the awareness because of marketing, not courage. At that point, Samsung is throwing everything on the wall to see what sticks (and they can afford to do so due to their conglomerate backing).

 

[stlredbird]

If SJ were are around I doubt I would have my beloved Apple Pencil.

 

[hadleydb]

If SJ were are around I doubt I would have my beloved Apple Pencil.

I have to agree. I don't think we would even have the 12.9 iPad Pro that I love. But who knows?

 

[phoneme]

If SJ were are around I doubt I would have my beloved Apple Pencil.

so true that along with the current dongle.

 

[bbydon]

Saw this on Daring Fireball, Steve's own words:
“Most people make the mistake of thinking design is what it looks like,” says Steve Jobs, Apple’s CEO. “People think it’s this veneer — that the designers are handed this box and told, ‘Make it look good!’ That’s not what we think design is. It’s not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.”

 

[mazdamiata210]

He wouldn't have approved of any of the things Apple has been doing

 

[Mrbobb]

I just switched from IOS6 (Jobs era) to IOS9 (flat post-Jobs) and I tell can tell you for the first time ever I have to read the manual to find out how to operate certain things. Jobs would have not approved any of these stuff. Jonny Ive is rich several times over and he got nobody to push him around.

 

[dasing123]

What's Jony Ive been doing all this time?

 

[Retired Cat]

If Steve Jobs had lived, iPhone 6 would probably have looked more like iPhone 7. I can't see SJ ever approving the ugly antenna bands on the 6/6s design. The 7 may have the same overall dimensions but it is much cleaner looking.

SJ pushed employees hard and forced them to keep iterating prototypes until he was satisfied.

 

[SPNarwhal]

As far as I'm aware, Steve had input on the entire pipeline of iPhones so far.
Steve was a great boss, but thinking that everything he did was amazing and everything after is lackluster is dumb.

How was the 3G to 3GS revolutionary? 3G didn't take videos when it should have, so that's cool that we got that feature?

The 4 had a better screen and a nice form factor. The 4S wasn't that amazing in comparison to the 4, though.

5 had a longer screen. What else did it really do? LTE? It's not as if that's really an Apple thing.

5S had finger print.

6 had larger size and the plus model

6S was good.

7 is kind of lacking, but at the same time it's not. Water Proof, better screen, and a great camera in the plus model.

What exactly is missing here? Steve's run wasn't some amazing thing where every single year we got some feature that we couldn't believe we were getting. We weren't spoiled. It wasn't as impressive as you're remembering it to be.

 

[ziggo]

Everyone does things different. I don't think we'd have a 5.5" iPhone if SJ was still here..

Jobs would've definitely increased the screen size. Only he would've called it the iPhone Pro and talked up how Apple had finally done phablets the "right" way

 

[IBeDrummin]

I heard that when he passed away he left TONS of projects behind so who knows how much he has contributed to these new projects. Obviously he will never be forgotten in the apple lineage but I am always curious about that.