Re-watched the original iPhone keynote, it really was 5 years ahead of it's time! Now, 5 years later, it is getting more and more competitors getting closer, but IMO no one has beat the iPhone yet.
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iPhone Turning Five Years Old with 250 Million Units Sold, $150 Billion in Revenue
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Damn!
I can wait to get my Macbook, and I LOVE OS X, but it's not very hard to understand why Apple puts so much energy towards the iPhone, it literally saved them.
I can wait to get my Macbook, and I LOVE OS X, but it's not very hard to understand why Apple puts so much energy towards the iPhone, it literally saved them.
Exactly.
You can't really compare a licensed OS to a non-licensed OS. You could compare iOS maybe to Palm's webOS (now HP) or Blackberry OS, and that would be a fair comparison… But people insist in this "number of users" comparison with Android which is pointless...
It's all about cash and profit
iPhone makes people pay more cash for it than cheap skate androids. They say oh well android is more successful but only at being a cheap lost leader no profit crapola. I bet if you looked at android profit you would see numbers that barely break even despite their comparative sales numbers.
Apple makes great products and makes profit and invests in talent innovation etc
Android makes copies with little to no profit left that are too expensive to make money on, with little to no way of making more media profits off at a later date.
People who buy androids buy cheap **** cos it's cheap, apple people invest in the best.
iPhone makes people pay more cash for it than cheap skate androids. They say oh well android is more successful but only at being a cheap lost leader no profit crapola. I bet if you looked at android profit you would see numbers that barely break even despite their comparative sales numbers.
Apple makes great products and makes profit and invests in talent innovation etc
Android makes copies with little to no profit left that are too expensive to make money on, with little to no way of making more media profits off at a later date.
People who buy androids buy cheap **** cos it's cheap, apple people invest in the best.
Upon reading this article I got my 1st gen iPhone out of the box and gave it a charge. It continues to work like a dream!
I also have the original receipt in the box from release day in the UK. It really doesn't feel like 5 years since I queued outside O2 with 5 or 6 others!
I also have the original receipt in the box from release day in the UK. It really doesn't feel like 5 years since I queued outside O2 with 5 or 6 others!
I can't believe it's already been 5 years. I remember all the hate they got for the touchscreen at the time. People claiming that it was going to be so smudged by fingers that it wouldn't be usable. 5 years later, practically every smartphone on the market is touchscreen. The same goes for the touchscreen keyboard. It's ridiculous how spot on apple was with the iPhone and how absolutely wrong all the "haters" were. Steve Jobs wasn't kidding when he said the iPhone was years ahead of any other phone on the market at that time.
Win
That first gen design is such a classic. I wish they sold all the designs with updated internals so you could have your pick of designs. I guess that would be ridiculous.
This is the best paragraph:
Five years. Half a decade. Who did that? Single-handed. It's unheard of. _Un_Heard_Of_. And those are just the top two. Could you imagine being the Apple Designers & Engineers? The world laughing in your face for six months while your baby is being prepped for production? What a story.
That first gen design is such a classic. I wish they sold all the designs with updated internals so you could have your pick of designs. I guess that would be ridiculous.
This is the best paragraph:
Five years. Half a decade. Who did that? Single-handed. It's unheard of. _Un_Heard_Of_. And those are just the top two. Could you imagine being the Apple Designers & Engineers? The world laughing in your face for six months while your baby is being prepped for production? What a story.
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There are a lot of things wrong with your comment, but I will simply point out that there has been no iPhone release since the new iPad, obviously... and the next iPhone will most likely include it.
They withheld it, because it wasn't ready for deployment to the public. There were some apps that were available on the first iPhone. Apple had _some_ development tools to produce these apps. I'd think the development tools and the apps were developed at the same time, so every time the app developers found a bug in the tools, they walked over to the tools guys and had them fix the problem. You can't do that kind of thing with external developers, so Apple had to wait until all the tools were ready.
This article really did make me sit and think about just how big of a revolution the iPhone was. We take it for granted, but d@mn, this thing really was lightyears ahead of it's time. It made smartphones mainstream. I specifically remember people who owned this raving about it, and wondering what all of the hooplah was about. One of my good friends made me laugh at the time by proclaiming that he could never live without his iPhone and it was one of the greatest things to ever happen to him. Here I am 5 years later and couldn't stand the thought of living without a smart phone and feel a bit embarrassed about how I shunned it off at first.
well i am on my second iphone 4s my first was stole a few weeks back i have used nokia phones i have used google phones i even used a windows phone granted you cant do everything on an iphone unless you jailbreak it but as far as easy to use interface not everything is hidden in sub menus like google like to do unless they have changed the os. I do find that i use my phone for some things that others may not use i have it tied into my sound system for broadcasting for one . But i have not come across another phone that puts a smile on my face as much as an iphone.
I owned a 1st gen iPhone and a 3G.
I currently own an Android based Razr Maxx.
The display size is perfect and the battery life is unbelievable.
But it absolutely falls short of any recent iPhone.
I'll definitely be giving the "new" iPhone a shot when it's released so long as Verizon plays their cards right.
I currently own an Android based Razr Maxx.
The display size is perfect and the battery life is unbelievable.
But it absolutely falls short of any recent iPhone.
I'll definitely be giving the "new" iPhone a shot when it's released so long as Verizon plays their cards right.
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Me too!
I now use mine as a media player for Pandora and Spotify plugged into my awesome JBL sound dock that I got as a Christmas present back in 2006 for my original iPod. (Who remembers those? lol) 
Me too!
I have mine too..its mint
)) i pop in a sim card when im between selling my iphone and buying the new ones))))
I have and love an iPhone, but just a video doesn't give you the facts. When Ballmer made that statement, the iPhone was $200 more. Apple drastically cut the price after a short time, after they had bled early adopters. His statement is based on that circumstance.
Nonetheless, he's still a dope who sounds and looks like Homer Simpson. He lucked into his career by befriending Bill Gates and Paul Allen early on. If Ron Wayne is the Pete Best of computers, then Steve Ballmer is the Ringo Starr.
My sister just swapped her Galaxy 2 for the 4s and loves it, even with the smaller screen and higher cost.
I'm still on my 3Gs, it's about 2.5 years old and I'm dying to get my hands on the new iPhone at the end of the year.