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Phil Schiller Says iPhone Was 'Earth-Shattering' Ten Years Ago and Remains 'Unmatched' Today
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Apple software, services, AI, and non-gimmicky hardware features have fallen way behind the competition but not unexpected from the Steve Ballmer of Apple. Every time I see Phil Schiller it reminds me of this video.
The funny thing is every single thread has your comment as well (not YOU commenting but the same content). People are allowed to have their opinion and share it, just as you are.
It's amazing how Apple continuously gets away with theft. ALL. THE. TIME.
Just watch this:
^Go to the 5:00 minute mark and see how Apple basically cons everyone into thinking they invented everything.
I am an Apple loyalist, but not a blind one. The iPhone is surpassed in a few ways. For example, still no way to handle local attachments in email, still can't choose default apps, still stuck on an arbitrary grid for icons, and maybe one or two more things I can't think of right now. Nothing major, just small things.
This is a demonstrably incorrect statement. OLED is great for television, not so great for displays that are mostly static, white, used in daylight.
iPhone still is amazing. But yeah, as for unmatched, this new Xiaomi Mi Mix is ridiculously amazing.
I don't think there are really. The only Android phone that's safe to use is the Pixel, and it costs $250 more than the SE, and will probably only be supported for 2 years (through late 2018 in other words). The SE's cheaper, I think better, and will be supported almost for sure longer than that. (Apple seems to be doing 5 years from the time a new CPU/GPU gets released, which isn't great by Windows PC standards, but is fantastic by ultra mobile standards, unfortunately).
Microsoft's phones are nice too, but usually cost as much or more, and of course so far don't have as good "app" support, although can do quite a few things better.
It is not iPhone, iOS is unmatched. Unlike android it does not have fragmentation issues. Once sailfish OS is mainstream iOS will have tough competition for sure.
http://www.pocket-lint.com/news/131...s-2-0-should-worry-apple-google-and-microsoft
http://www.pocket-lint.com/news/131...s-2-0-should-worry-apple-google-and-microsoft
That is debatable. For you and about 5% of the public MacOS is better at best. I own run both platforms and one isn't any better than the other in my opinion. Both are actually more similar than dissimilar now. I'm about done with Mac anyway. One use to pay a premium and get a premium product - Software and Hardware. That is no longer the case today so why pay a premium anymore?
Because a grid of apps is an efficient way to list them. I have no trouble attaching things in email but yeah, there is room for improvement. Not sure why Apple seems to be dragging their feet on setting defaults. Still, overall I do not think anyone else is perfect either.
I don't know man. Do you remember the announcement and then the internet afterwards? The presentation gave me goosebumps and sent shockwaves through the internet and even mainstream media. Everyone had and did say something about it. I still watch the presentation when I gotta get amp'd up to speak. It's considered one of the greatest presentations of all time. Don't let the fading glory take away from what it was 10 years ago. If you remember, it was awesome.
To commemorate the tenth anniversary of the iPhone, Apple marketing chief Phil Schiller sat down with tech journalist Steven Levy for a wide-ranging interview about the smartphone's past, present, and future.
The report first reflects upon the iPhone's lack of support for third-party apps in its first year. The argument inside Apple was split between whether the iPhone should be a closed device like the iPod, or an open platform like the Mac, a discussion that Schiller said was ultimately "shut down" by then-CEO Steve Jobs.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." Schiller, perhaps unsurprisingly as Apple's marketing chief, said that belief undermines how truly "earth-shattering" the iPhone was at the time.
Nowadays, some critics are wondering whether Apple is playing it safe as of late, arguing that recent iPhone models have only incremental improvements rather than revolutionary new features. But, again, Schiller downplayed this notion and said the changes in more recent iPhones are "sometimes even bigger now."Schiller positioned the iPhone as a top smartphone. "The quality is unmatched. The ease of use is still unmatched. The integration of hardware software is unmatched. We're not about the cheapest, we're not about the most, we're about the best."
In a press release yesterday, Schiller said Apple is "just getting started" with the iPhone, while CEO Tim Cook promised "the best is yet to come." Building upon those comments, Schiller told Levy that he hopes in 50 years, people will indeed look back and realize how much was yet to come.Levy, however, went on to question "whether a pocket-sized device like the iPhone will still be as relevant decades hence," particularly as "a lot of observers have been saying we are at the start of the era of the conversational interface."
At CES last week, for example, a number of reputable publications said Amazon's Alexa platform "stole the show" or offered similar accolades, after companies showed off everything from new cars and robots to fridges and laundry machines integrated with the voice-controlled assistant, which launched in late 2014.
Apple itself had an early lead in this artificial intelligence space when it debuted Siri on the iPhone 4s in 2011.
Schiller opined that "the best intelligent assistant is the one that's with you all the time," such as the iPhone. Schiller added that "people are forgetting the value and importance of the display," which he said is "not going to go away."Full-Length Article: Phil Schiller on iPhone's Launch, How It Changed Apple, and Why It Will Keep Going for 50 Years
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Every few weeks, just for fun, I ask Siri how old Michael Phelps is. "Michael Phelps is 55 years old."
Then I ask the question in other ways to help Siri out, like "How old is the swimmer Michael Phelps" or "How old is the Olympian Michael Phelps."
He's always 55 years old.
No, Siri is not the best or most intelligent assistant. She reminds me of Apple Maps when it first came out.
I think Schiller is showing how irrelevant and out of touch he is. Apple is ASLEEP !
Sensors that can integrate with Siri so she knows when the phone is being held (and therefore a display can be read) vs when she is set down on a surface and therefore needs to respond audibly to a query. I think the phone already has that ability to communicate to Siri in such a way but if it does, it's not working for me.
I would also like her to somehow not mangle every other clearly uttered sentence so badly as she does. Actually, she used to transcribe my words very well but her accuracy has fallen off dramatically in the past few months and I don't know why.
I also would like compatibility with VR in much the same way Samsung works with Oculus. I know that's a battery killer and a niche use so I understand why people and Apple would NOT want this, but for me, the ability to access VR worlds on my smart phone does feel revolutionary, perhaps because I'm the generation that first experienced digital gaming in the very basic form of the game "Pong" so VR seems so incredible to me, because I have experienced first hand how far we've come.
I'd like integration with my automobile so I can unlock my car with my phone. I think that capability exists but I don't have it yet.
Going much further beyond 2017, I'd like to be able to aim my iPhone at myself or my pets and detect simple ailments like with a Star Trek tricorder.
I have 7 Plus and there are reason why I'm not going to switch to android a long time, but that doesn't mean that I'm blind to what is happening around Apple.
Alexa is leaps ahead of Siri, who is bound to a display to provide you feedback. Conversational UI is the next step, and whoever/whatever can make tasks simpler wins.
