100% skeuomorphic design is not in favor these days. Touches here and there, sure.
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Today Marks the 13th Anniversary of When Steve Jobs Unveiled the Original iPhone
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Funny you mentioned that.
During the presentation Jobs showed the Nokia E61 which used the second generation of the Apple mobile browser that Apple and Nokia collaborated with when it was first introduced on the Nokia N80
Apple seems to make small moves when it comes to software, what we all forget to take in is the first release is actually a beta and gets continually refined.
When I feel really down I just queue up. The WWDC announcement and I get so damn fired up .... for once Apple looked like a true underdog.
at that time I was on S60 primarily bounced back n forth to blackberry OS (work), and knew eventually it’ll be worth it.
when the 3GS debuted I was down! After the 5S never looked and never switched to any other mobile device/OS.
Funny you mentioned that.
During the presentation Jobs showed the Nokia E61 which used the second generation of the Apple mobile browser that Apple and Nokia collaborated with when it was first introduced on the Nokia N80
Apple seems to make small moves when it comes to software, what we all forget to take in is the first release is actually a beta and gets continually refined.
When I feel really down I just queue up. The WWDC announcement and I get so damn fired up .... for once Apple looked like a true underdog.
at that time I was on S60 primarily bounced back n forth to blackberry OS (work), and knew eventually it’ll be worth it.
when the 3GS debuted I was down! After the 5S never looked and never switched to any other mobile device/OS.
OMG I remember the scaled down web interface my clamshell phone used. It was absolutely horrendous. One of the many reasons I was amazed by the iPhone.
you cannot forget the iPod ... the single -most product that turned Apple purely into a consumer electronics company.
Time flies. I remember standing in line, at 04:00 in the morning, to buy that first series iPhone.
Then, ATT's network and Apple's were jammed, and could not register the device.
Fun times...
Then, ATT's network and Apple's were jammed, and could not register the device.
Fun times...
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The device that arguably ushered in the post-pc era. Steve talked about the iPad doing this, but it was really the iPhone (although to be fair, they were working on the iPad first).
I couldn't afford one then, but it was a Xerox PARC moment for me: "This, THIS is how phones are going to work going forward" I said upon seeing it.
To think it would do more than that; it would change HOW we use computers, not just phones. For many, the iPhone OS (mainly via the iPad, I'd say) has replaced desktop OSes entirely. It even influenced Windows like the Mac OS did before. From keyboard and mouse to (Apple-style) touch. Revolution.
It's frankly too bad that Android has surpassed it in so many ways (at the phone level), but then again, Apple has been very clever in slow-leaking features into the iPhone to keep people coming back, and that is unlikely to change. They know their user-base by now. And with their ecosystem in place and growing with wearables, it might become moot to simply have a better single device. Apple's ecosystem is hands-down the best one, and the single best thing about iOS (ok, perhaps iMessage too).
My first and only iPhone was a 4S, and I loved it dearly until iOS 7, larger screens, Android flexibility, and Samsung Galaxy hardware (I'm a Note fan) that gave me the computer-in-my-pocket I always wanted made the decision to leave pretty easy.
But I'm always, ALWAYS keeping my eye out for the killer feature or features that'll bring me back.
I couldn't afford one then, but it was a Xerox PARC moment for me: "This, THIS is how phones are going to work going forward" I said upon seeing it.
To think it would do more than that; it would change HOW we use computers, not just phones. For many, the iPhone OS (mainly via the iPad, I'd say) has replaced desktop OSes entirely. It even influenced Windows like the Mac OS did before. From keyboard and mouse to (Apple-style) touch. Revolution.
It's frankly too bad that Android has surpassed it in so many ways (at the phone level), but then again, Apple has been very clever in slow-leaking features into the iPhone to keep people coming back, and that is unlikely to change. They know their user-base by now. And with their ecosystem in place and growing with wearables, it might become moot to simply have a better single device. Apple's ecosystem is hands-down the best one, and the single best thing about iOS (ok, perhaps iMessage too).
My first and only iPhone was a 4S, and I loved it dearly until iOS 7, larger screens, Android flexibility, and Samsung Galaxy hardware (I'm a Note fan) that gave me the computer-in-my-pocket I always wanted made the decision to leave pretty easy.
But I'm always, ALWAYS keeping my eye out for the killer feature or features that'll bring me back.
I remember accessing the web via AMPS/WAP on old analog cell phones. Boy I sure miss the voice quality of analog with a good signal. But yes, accessing data was horrendous. Took like 5 minutes to type in a URL with a 10-key numeric pad, then you saw the results on screen about the size of a large postage stamp.