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Seven Years Ago Today, Steve Jobs Introduced the iPhone
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Watched the keynote for the 50th time last night. And just like every other time, I got totally sucked in watching Steve give the presentation. It was just amazing. I remember being blown away by what I was seeing. And now knowing the back story and the whole "golden path" thing, it makes it even more spectacular.
The funny thing is you might hate the iPhone more than anything in the world, but whether you favor Android, Windows, Blackberry, etc., you owe what you personally consider to be good technology to this one day in history. Thank you, Steve, for fueling the smartphone revolution and encouraging amazing technology to flourish.
The "It's patented" line in that keynote was probably the most important line. It got a huge laugh but in reality Apple patenting the **** out of the iPhone has saved Apple ass so many times. It's a sad sad world when talk of patents is more important than the actual product being patented. But it's a brave new world we live in.
And you are guessing wrong. The iPhone keynote was a global event. Even the main evening news in Germany was reporting about Apple, for the very first time in history. Up until then the company was completely ignored by the public.
Wrong! There were no smartphones before the iPhone. The "so-called smartphones" as Jobs describes them in his keynote, were better feature-phones, nothing more.
As always the problem with people who deny the effect of the iPhone, is that they only look at the hardware and never at the software. Having a touchscreen means nothing. Using a touchscreen to operate a full featured mobile operating system, thats what makes a smartphone.
The company you were impressed by, went from biggest and most profitable mobile phone company in the world to total bankruptcy and loss of independency in just seven years because of the iPhone. Without the iPhone Nokia would still be king.
I have to totally agree with you.
I look at that great video (and love it) And think to myself...
Hey 2007, now 2014 It's barely changed at all.
Sure specs have changed, but fundamentally that same UI for 7 years.
Then to just place the same UI onto a 10" tablet was unforgivable
It WAS great, but they've been riding this way for 7 years.
We deserve more than a few tweeks by now
How did Windows look and feel from 95-7? The same. And then, Windows 8 Ui changed, people screamed at MS.
Why change something that worked so well?
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As a former N95 owner (and almost EVERY Nokia Smartphone before iPhone introduction) I can say: are you serious ?
Usable smartphones ? Those crappy Symbian toys ? OMG ....
Apple pretty much was a self-contained universe of a computer company until two major things happened, which was the introduction of the iPod which divided Apple's attention from just the computer/computer OS maker and later with the iPhone which totally refocused Apple into being a consumer electronic gadget company.
As a gadget company, they made those gadgets necessary to live in the 21st century thus making Apple the top high tech company in the industry. I knew Apple had changed when the Apple Store in the mall was referred to as the iPod store, and then probably the iPhone store by many others. I never saw that many people switch to Mac since they were living off their iPhones so much that if they even got a Mac, that would sit there largely unused because iPad filled the need that the computer once used to have.
The early Steve Jobs rantings of the iPod and consumer electronics as the future and it all going to the stuff you carry in your pocket and thus being so much bigger than the personal computer initially sounded like hype, but it turned out to be true and the source of over 80% percent of Apple's income. Being a Mac fan I was not initially fond of iPhone and iPod getting all the love but it was for a bigger purpose. We couldn't just survive forever on Steve's genius marketing so he knew that if Apple got into something sound on the long run, like iPod/iPhone/iTunes, then the company would be safe for decades like an IBM or Microsoft. Anyway, iPhone, well done!
Macs plus related accessories appear to be somewhere under 20% percent and iPhone is where most of the company is focused:
http://www.macworld.com/article/205...p-but-net-profits-down-in-fourth-quarter.html
I wouldn't be surprised if I am the only poster on this thread with a Mac but without iPhone, iPod, and any iTunes downloads.
As a gadget company, they made those gadgets necessary to live in the 21st century thus making Apple the top high tech company in the industry. I knew Apple had changed when the Apple Store in the mall was referred to as the iPod store, and then probably the iPhone store by many others. I never saw that many people switch to Mac since they were living off their iPhones so much that if they even got a Mac, that would sit there largely unused because iPad filled the need that the computer once used to have.
The early Steve Jobs rantings of the iPod and consumer electronics as the future and it all going to the stuff you carry in your pocket and thus being so much bigger than the personal computer initially sounded like hype, but it turned out to be true and the source of over 80% percent of Apple's income. Being a Mac fan I was not initially fond of iPhone and iPod getting all the love but it was for a bigger purpose. We couldn't just survive forever on Steve's genius marketing so he knew that if Apple got into something sound on the long run, like iPod/iPhone/iTunes, then the company would be safe for decades like an IBM or Microsoft. Anyway, iPhone, well done!
Macs plus related accessories appear to be somewhere under 20% percent and iPhone is where most of the company is focused:
http://www.macworld.com/article/205...p-but-net-profits-down-in-fourth-quarter.html
I wouldn't be surprised if I am the only poster on this thread with a Mac but without iPhone, iPod, and any iTunes downloads.
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Yeah, very excited in bringing with me a ridiculously huge 6" device supposed to make phone calls ....
Here again, fandroids storming the forum with off topic posts, trying hard to save the world from Apple products.
This was Samsung concept of smartphone in 2007 .... I will never NEVER STOP thanking Apple for what they did with iPhone.
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What is started with Galaxy ? The ridiculous rush to the bigger screen trying hard to sell more than other otherwise identical droids ?
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That chart end in 2010 (barely, since most models are from 2008-2009).
It is 2014 dude
It is just a pathetic attempt to defend himself by Samsung ....
Of course I am. Who else but me could be an authority on anything? And my view is consistent with what happened to Nokia in the past seven years. You know some call it, the reality (distortion field). Nokia never had a competitive smartphone. They coined the term, but they never had the real thing. If you don't believe me, try to explain how else Nokia could have vanished!So, you (and Steve) are now the authority on the definition of a smartphone.
Memories! I had a company phone similar to that one around 1993.
Back then, there was no such thing as automatic roaming in many parts of the US. I remember a long trip driving from Canada down through the Dakotas to Colorado, while talking almost continuously on the phone.
Every time I passed from one carrier's towers to another, the call would drop. I had to dial the 800 roaming access number for that particular area, enter a code PIN, then enter the number I wanted to dial. It was a tedious mess to stay connected.
Ballmer was correct about the price being too high at first for USA buyers. It only took a couple of months before Apple realized it, too, and dropped the price by a rather large 1/3. The next year they joined every other maker by allowing carrier subsidies.
When have iPhone patents saved Apple's ass? Even if they had none, they'd still be doing great.
I'd like to see a list of the "200 patents" he claimed they filed, because I never found that many, and they only use about a dozen in trials.
Hmm. I think you have a strange idea of what a smartphone is.
Again, no. An input method does not define a smartphone. You could have one that worked only by voice or air gestures, for example. In the future, perhaps brain waves. A touch screen is not a requirement.
Heck, the iPhone itself was unusable without a working primary physical button for many years.
OTOH, even old Windows Mobile smartphones could be used via only their touchscreen if you wished, because they included an onscreen Start button.
I've heard they actually used different phones since some did a few things right while others didn't. And the wi-fi signal indicator was fake, to avoid showing the sporadic failures of the wi-fi on the phone.
I wonder if Ballmer is still laughing....?
Crappy Symbian toys? Well, it had a nice Google Maps app (with Google Buzz support), Gmail native app, Nokia Maps (I traveled by car through Italy guided by Nokia Maps navigation). Seriously, you never had a N95 or didn't used so much time. Probably you took an iPhone after a couple of months owning a N95. Also, this 2007 "dinosaur" had Flickr sharing support, allowing sending pictures taken with that (at the time) very nice 5MP autofocus camera. Which phone was a toy?
This video still gives me goosebumps. I can't believe it has been 7 years. Still remember those stays as if it happened yesterday.
The idiots are idiots with or without technology. At least now we don't have to listen to them. It's easier to ignore Internet related idiocy than being talked at.