Really - That is the silliest idea i have ever seen . apple your failing so hard right now . your ideas are so old . Come on
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Tony Fadell Shares New Details on Prototype iPhone Software With Virtual iPod Clickwheel
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Wait I thought people here were saying Apple is doomed because the Bloomberg story said different versions of the MBP were being worked on and that meant there wasn't a cohesive vision. Now competition is good? And since when is collaboration is naive?
The main part of my comment was this:
Apple was doing all this in secret for years. On Macs... on phone hardware... whatever.
So do we really think Apple got the "idea" and "design" from LG ? Because that's what the head of LG Mobile Handset R&D Center said.
I think it's complete nonsense!
Nokia 3600 / 3650. Can't believe I actually ordered this.
This was, hands down, my favorite phone before the iPhone and I had quite a few Nokias. Besides the unique looks, it was incredibly rugged, was my first ever camera phone and held a charge including talktime measured in days. Still miss that phone sometimes.
I can't agree more... using the iPod interface would have been very lame and cumbersome. One of the things I hated about BB phones was the menus and navigation was tedious. The iPhone 1 and iOS 1.0 got it right.
On a separate note, people do a lot of complaining about lame features in the iPhone over the past few years. But the way I look at it, we reached a point fairly quickly where "big features" were solved. The App Store was huge. The developers program... Huge... the introduction of the Retina display... huge... and the continued work on the A Series chips... very huge. One feature iPhone has going for it that Androids can't seem to come close to, is the overall performance of the iPhone. iOS is not a memory hog. It's smooth and fairly bug free.
So iPhone 8, or what's really the "next big thing"? Who knows... it's not Smart Light Bulbs. I don't think it's virtual reality like we know it today.... or even these voice assistants devices like the Amazon Eco... Alexa may be good, but let's face it, if Apple could give Siri a major update, and make access to Siri fluid and available on all Apple Devices (which it is except for Apple TV fully) why would you need one of these devices? Another device sitting around duplicating function.
Also, dumping the headphone jack... yeah... it's painful now, but in 1-2 years, you'll never want to go back. Just like DVD's... I hate digging them out now and rarely do. Almost everything is streamed. So, is this bad? Yeah, it hurts some. It's caught me a couple times... but I know it's not long before everything I own will connect wirelessly and the cables will be a thing of the past. By Apple being first here, they take the hit now, but in the long run, Apple and their users will be way ahead when the change to wireless runs ramped.
Anyway... looking forward to 2017 and really hoping we'll see something this year we didn't expect.
As older people will recall it: there was a successful computer company years ago called Acorn.
According to wikipedia it was the "British Apple".
I was choosing between this and an Atari, choose the Atari for the music software.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acorn_Computers
Interestingly: Sophie Wilson designed the Acorn Micro-Computer, then later designed the instruction set of the ARM processor, which became the de factomodel used in 21st-century smartphones.
The original Prototypes carry a lot more history in Apple's DNA over 6s. Especially Since Fadell and Forstall were both competing makes it more interesting since there departure.
That's fair but the DNA has changed and I believe where the company is headed is more important then the past phones that weren't good enough for market. Neither OS design was chosen
I defintely agree the Company has changed and different avenues have taken the company elsewhere. But true, neither Deeign was chosen. Interesting to see none the less.
Internal competition only works when you have a leader whom everyone respects. Steve kept everyone in line and everyone motivated. Without Steve, the internal divisions between Forstall and Ive grew worse.
I like how you call Tim "smug" and "clueless" when you don't even know the man. He's not Jobs, but no one is. I'm sure he knew he couldn't play that role, pitting teams against each other, because he's not a product guy. Does Apple need another product guy/girl CEO? I'm not sure. I'd say probably so, but I can't think of anyone in the industry I'd put in that position except maybe Elon Musk. But there's no way that's happening. The problem is that Steve just didn't know products and design, he also had an uncanny ability to see a convoluted market and provide an elegant solution.
He wants to create special snowflake safe zone environment. He is poisoning people and the company.
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He needs to get laid.