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Seven Years Ago Today, Steve Jobs Introduced the iPhone
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How the hell does someone copy linux? And stole Java? Oracle lost that battle in a big, bad way. The only thing they were able to successfully sue over were a small number of lines written in Dalvik that were also in Java, that were coincidentally written by the same guy on both platforms.
I was in the audience that day. It was so cool that Steve led off with the three products intro and let the audience realize on our own that it was really one device. You could feel the electricity run through the audience as that realization spread.
I miss MacWorld this time of year, and all the product launches and keynotes that were part of it.
Look outside and out of the hundreds of people you see out there, most are using their smartphone as a mobile computer. The next time you're in a hotel or a movie theater or a basketball game, literally stop what you're doing and examine everyone around you. They are doing everything on their smartphone. You didn't see this 10 years ago except with business people and even then they weren't doing 10% of the things achievable on a smartphone today. The iPhone literally changed the world.
This was the first Apple keynote I ever watched, when I was still ignorantly biased against Apple, and that kept me from seeing how amazing it truly was.
This year I spent the night outside to get my 5s and the only thing holding me back from having all the latest Apple products is finances.
This year I spent the night outside to get my 5s and the only thing holding me back from having all the latest Apple products is finances.
OS X is NeXTSTEP, which had preemptive multitasking and the other things you mentioned long before Windows did. Apple's acquisition of Steve's operating system was indeed catchup for them, but NeXT was lightyears ahead of Microsoft's technology.
I don't have this feeling. Probably most non US-residents doesn't share this feeling. My first smartphone was a Nokia N95 8GB. It didn't have a touchscreen, but could make stuff that only later iPhones could do well. The second phone I owned was a Nokia N8 and the third (current) is a Galaxy Note.
My girlfriend has an iPhone 5C and it was my first daily contact with an iPhone. Apart from the user interface which is smooth and sleek, it feels just average. The latest firmware for my G.Note (Jelly Bean 4.1.2) is practically as smooth as the iPhone, but the Note has a lot more features.
I really and honestly don't understand all this frenesi around iPhone. It's maybe the first good looking, usable touchscreen phone, but that's it. I'm a computer user, so at that time I was more impressed with N95's features...
True, ten years ago people actually talked to each other at dinner, and watched the movie in a theater.
Now it's like one of those Twilight Zone episodes, where if the 'net went down, people wouldn't know what to do or think
It's maybe the first good looking, driveable car.
It's maybe the first good looking, wearable watch.
It's maybe the first good looking, useable electric shaver.
It's maybe the first good looking, long lasting battery.
Uh...what more do you want in any product? Good looking and useable?
Well... I said "touchscreen phone"... there were a lot of good looking, non-touchscreen, usable smartphones. For example, in phones with numeric keypad we could run video game emulators nicely. I liked running Phantasy Star on my N95 8GB... touchscreen models never reproduced such playability.
That's what I said: if touchscreen was mandatory for you, then iPhone was a paradigm shift. Otherwise, it was just a good looking, usable touchscreen phone. The competitors had GPS, 3G, IR, better cameras (even front ones) and so on at that time.
They had, but not on a mass production smartphone.
Yep, flick scrolling was cool even 15 years before the iPhone used it:
