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Phil Schiller Says iPhone Was 'Earth-Shattering' Ten Years Ago and Remains 'Unmatched' Today
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Reminds me of some cocky executives at Motorola and Nokia back in the day...
"Levy suggested that the iPhone's great moment was when the App Store launched a year later, creating a world where for "every imaginable activity" there was "an app for that."
It was but it wasn't Apple's App store that was the "Great Moment" for the iPhone, it was the Cydia App Store that clued in Apple that people wanted more out of their iPhones than just web apps.
It was but it wasn't Apple's App store that was the "Great Moment" for the iPhone, it was the Cydia App Store that clued in Apple that people wanted more out of their iPhones than just web apps.
The iPhone sold like crap when it was launched. The price reduction and introduction of the App Store, that's when the market got upended
Once my iPod Classic ships, I might think about picking up one of these to fill in the phone part. Honestly I'm kind of hyped.
The air must be mighty thin up in that perch Schiller sits on. Better approach would have been to acknowledge iPhone changed the phone landscape & spurred a new tech revolution. It's not credible to say iPhone is unmatched. There is no metric that bears that out. Apple execs just come off arrogant, smarmy, and clueless.
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What deluded nonsense! Just look where apple is going. Nowhere fast! The keynotes are no longer a must watch, the product line is messey and cluttered, the iOS and Mac updates usually bring more problems than they solve. i jewellery is naff and pointless and the three stooges Cook, Schiller and Federaghi is like the blind leading the blind. If you surround yourself with sycophantic yes men then you will never fully see or understand what needs to be fixed. These dinosaurs need replaced. If you fail to make changes your doomed. Sadly it's only when it hits share holders profits that changes are made but by that point it's usually too late!!
Today's "intelligent assistants" like Siri or Alexa, etc., are stunted and accident prone. They are on the level of novelty toys or those ridiculous robots marketed in the 80s that could carry a beer across the room with a platter of nuts. Most of the CES tech is similar: newer robots without sentience, strange vapor devices, VRbage, and so forth.
I remember thinking about how special the App Store was when it was first announced. The first app I bought was a was a racing motorcycle game. While the game wasn't great, I knew it was just the beginning, and it was only going to get better.
. That is pretty much the changes from recent iPhone, they are literally bigger that the previous seven models. To get most of the best features of the current iPhones, you are forced to buy the Plus models.
Also, the 6, 6s, and 7, are not very unique when compared to the previous iPhones. They look like many other Android phone out there. It would be nice if Apple got that unique look back for their next iPhone.
. IMO, the 4s was the last great iPhone design. While the 5 looked unique to the competition, it did not have the beauty of the 4.
I thought Siri was magical when I first experienced it, but it has been pretty much the same since then and has not evolved.
It refers me to the internet for almost any request.
And yet the one thing that triggered the iPhone's success was not the App Store but Cydia and Installer and their method to load native apps. That was the moment when, "there is an app for that" was the norm among early iPhone users.
People, remember that Schiller is just a marketing person. He's only saying/doing what he's paid to do. Why do we even bother listening to the "technical" opinions of marketers?
I will never understand how people can compare any phone prior to the iPhone to it. The leap from all phone prior to the iPhone was a giant one that no one ever expected. And we saw that when companies started scrambling after the iPhone announcement.
definitely matched, people are just stuck with their Apple content, but I imagine that will change.
I remember sitting in Moscone West at Macworld 10 years ago fumbling with my Blackberry when Steve introduced the original iPhone. I had gone through a succession of early smartphones, including the Blackberry, Palm Treo, Motorola Q and hating the unfinished feel of each device.
Steve was right. The Apple iPhone was a game changer and I have purchased each successive model since the original.
Now it's time for Cupertino to get back to work....
Steve was right. The Apple iPhone was a game changer and I have purchased each successive model since the original.
Now it's time for Cupertino to get back to work....
I was just thinking if I had an Apple Watch that had cell service (and battery to support), I might still have an iphone but I think I would use it sparingly. I would still use it for email, etc, but the reasons I keep my phone on me most of the time could be solved with a "conversational" assistant on my wrist that has mobile service. A shift where the watch becomes the primary device and the "phone" or maybe rebranded as a micro-tablet/pocket tablet, as the secondary would probably suit my needs well.
I find this quote funny "Having my iPhone with me as the thing I speak to is better than something stuck in my kitchen or on a wall somewhere."
Because apple will release such a device in a couple years...And why cant apple ever compliment the competition?
Why does he have to always take a dig? Im sure Phil bashed the Note series as "too big" and goes to release the 6 Plus.
I still enjoy apple but Phil does seem like that Iraq General.
Because apple will release such a device in a couple years...And why cant apple ever compliment the competition?
Why does he have to always take a dig? Im sure Phil bashed the Note series as "too big" and goes to release the 6 Plus.
I still enjoy apple but Phil does seem like that Iraq General.
This is hilarious but I'm going to take a wild guess that 98% of the commenters have no idea who this is and what he represented. Still very hilarious.
I actually agree with Phil. iPhone and iPad are unmatched Smartphone and Tablet experiences in this extremely competitive market.
Where Apple lacks is desktop computer lineup, both on hardware and software side.
Where Apple lacks is desktop computer lineup, both on hardware and software side.
Can you buy other smartphones of course, but going by my experience with a Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge last summer I do think he actually has a point to note that they are unmatched.
Everything was just cumbersome to setup, to integrate, battery life zaps, application interfaces all look different, I couldn't just continue seamlessly on my desktop / laptop / phone like an iPhone integrates with OSX. Making calls, receiving calls etc.
And then there was that edge, the amount of times it accidentally did things I didn't want it to do.
Yet spec for spec it may be match, superseded in many areas, but as a holistic view and whole package, no I actually agree, it still is unmatched.
Everything was just cumbersome to setup, to integrate, battery life zaps, application interfaces all look different, I couldn't just continue seamlessly on my desktop / laptop / phone like an iPhone integrates with OSX. Making calls, receiving calls etc.
And then there was that edge, the amount of times it accidentally did things I didn't want it to do.
Yet spec for spec it may be match, superseded in many areas, but as a holistic view and whole package, no I actually agree, it still is unmatched.
Crap is a bit strong . It sold a few 100K launch weekend. Lines everywhere it was sold. Pretty incredible for a $500 unsubsidized, but still 2 year ATT-contract req., phone.
But the masses were not ready for that business model and post launch sales were weak even after the price cut. The 3G + subsidy + App Store is what gave it traction.