Apple didn’t invent the modern smartphone, but they popularized it and perfected it.
Windows CE/Windows Mobile invented it.
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iPhone 16 Pro Demand Has Been Lower Than Expected, Analyst Says
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Windows CE/Windows Mobile invented it.
The absence of fully-implemented AppleI at launch was the deciding factor for me. I'm a faithful two-year upgrade type and fully anticipated waking up early to pre-order the 16Pro and return my 14Pro. But as it became clear that AppleI was months away — and only a few months more before launch of the 17Pro — I decided to wait this time. Yep, first year ever with an iphone more than two years old, but I'll just put those $$ toward an M4 MacBook instead.
No those aren't considered modern smartphones. They had zero influence on the design of other products.
The iPhone was the first modern and useful smartphone, more useful than the blackberry. Everything else before that was just garbage. I know. I had them all, including some of the horrific WinCE devices.
Steve Jobs was correct in making sure that these old smartphones were erased from history. They were truly garbage.
I just remember how much my iPhone 11 Pro sucked with Intel modem.
Apple silicon has been around for long time before the arm based mac devices - first A4 was in iPhone 4. I'll wait until the modem has been around a few years.
1. To me "modern smartphone" means a phone w/ Internet and app availability that DOESN'T rely on a physical keyboard or stylus. In that definition, yes, Apple invented the "modern" smartphone, that is to say, has the elements that all smartphones have today.
2. I'm only going off memory here, but I think Blackberry and Palm Phone was the first smartphone with a web browser and downloadable apps. Windows CE was a year or two later. MS definitely did not invent the category, have a usable product, or popularize it. Blackberry popularized the genre and was the standard until the iPhone. I used Palm phones back then, and I think they were more versatile, but BB was definitely the most popular, hence the term "Crackberry."
Demand is probably also not helped by the fact that people now have record credit card debt and are struggling to stay afloat. A new phone is a want not a need for the vast majority of people.
You might be correct, but it's been the same story for almost a decade or more. First week sales are disappointing, all the experts think they have figured out Apple's Supply Chain. Then reports come out that sales were better than initially thought. Rinse. Repeat.
Hahahahahahahahahaha. I had one of these, and I had the wireless modem too. The whole thing was niche, unreliable trash. There was nothing modern about those devices, even then.
No, first weekend sales are a good indicator. They vary every year.
iPhone 12 dates slipped by a month within the first few hours. iPhone 16 pre-orders are just slow this year.
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I would have updated from my 12 pro if they had not added so much Ai, and did not take away the option for unlocked phones to be financed. They made it financially impossible for some ppl like me when they required finance purchases to have one of the 4 major carriers. Womp womp.
Long shot for sure, but I like the way you think. Always found it odd that only iPad Air had that.
Were any of those changes necessary, or even an improvement? What's the point of change for changes sake?But but but you can't change design every year, Apple is fine using the same for 6 years!!!
meanwhile....
Notice that the current form looks more like an iPhone than any previous year. The point is to slowly move to copy the iPhone but then trash it for 'lack of innovation'.
I understand your point but expectations is a dangerous thing. It’s good to have them but be objective, being at the forefront is being number 1, and that is an extremely difficult thing even if you have the money. Sometimes others will take over, and it’s ok, pacing is important in a marathon, you don’t always gotta be first through the race. Others have already replied with other cases, so I won’t add to it.
But even if you think apple is not at the forefront I don’t know why you think that. Because the phones look the same for the past 4-5 years? The internals are surely not the same and as an example their processors are absolute number 1 in the mobile market, and they design them in-house compared to the competition. That is pretty significant in my book.
I agree, inflation is not helping much since people have less disposable income.
Things in Europe are getting a bleak and UK guys are about to get hit by a truckload of taxes straight up their **** due to the “sudden” debt hole they are in.
The pricing is outrageous really. Personally I think all iPhones should be sub £1k with the top tier Pro perhaps being £999 or at a stretch £1099. We’ve gotten used to paying MacBook prices for iPhones in recent years, incredible really.