A lot of people were just like you and cancelled their contract too. Amazing how one phone can do that.
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What was the iPhone back in the day?
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A lot of people were just like you and cancelled their contract too. Amazing how one phone can do that.
I loved when Jobs introduced it.
" A widescreen iPod with touch controls"
*crowd goes crazy*
" Second a revolutionary mobile phone"
*crowd goes ballistic and explodes*
" Last a breakthrough internet communications device"
* Crowd goes, " WTF does that mean, but since you're Steve Jobs we will clap and cheer anyway even though not as enthusiastically as the first two".
The crowd reaction to the last feature was funny to me at least.
Even though my 8 GB iPhone was $599, still happy I got it.
Hahaha totally agree - just watched it now, and on the third point you can tell everyone in the crowd is going "huh?I loved when Jobs introduced it.
" A widescreen iPod with touch controls"
*crowd goes crazy*
" Second a revolutionary mobile phone"
*crowd goes ballistic and explodes*
" Last a breakthrough internet communications device"
* Crowd goes, " WTF does that mean, but since you're Steve Jobs we will clap and cheer anyway even though not as enthusiastically as the first two".
The crowd reaction to the last feature was funny to me at least.
Even though my 8 GB iPhone was $599, still happy I got it.
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Hahaha totally agree - just watched it now, and on the third point you can tell everyone in the crowd is going "huh?
Little did they know it would be the most important of the three qualities. I rarely use the iPod part of my iPhone (I have iPods for that!) and the phone part is crap, but having the internet in my pocket is.... magical.
I loved when Jobs introduced it.
" A widescreen iPod with touch controls"
*crowd goes crazy*
" Second a revolutionary mobile phone"
*crowd goes ballistic and explodes*
" Last a breakthrough internet communications device"
* Crowd goes, " WTF does that mean, but since you're Steve Jobs we will clap and cheer anyway even though not as enthusiastically as the first two".
The crowd reaction to the last feature was funny to me at least.
Even though my 8 GB iPhone was $599, still happy I got it.
Hahaha, I just saw that. Funny stuff.
The internet is awesome. I can't recall how many times I needed to look things up....be it when shopping for items and getting reviews to manual on how to use a function of my cd player in my car
I will also say that I dont use my ipods at all anymore because I have my iphone on me all the time!
The iphone introduction
The part that wow'd me (there are numerous parts) but this is the one that differentiated it and made it SOOOO appealing
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9VLb5XdxRm8&feature=related
it was an ipod + phone + email + best mobile internet by far. Significantly ahead of anything else on the market at the time.
Back then, web apps were the only kinda apps. I still remember the excitement playing a sudoku web app. hehe
I'm sort of glad some websites had an mobile/iphone version to them. Jobs vision of the entire webpage in your pocket was great but on a small screen it just wasnt that great. Hopefully with iPhone 4.0 thaty will change since the resolution will be better.
Oh yeah. That was pretty good.
a widescreen ipod with touch controls Back then all ipods had the click whell and a small 2.5 or 1.5 screen. Though I wont rerally call the iphone/ipodn touch widescreen. Its more like a standard screen with a bit more added to it.
4GB is fine for a phone that has no apps, no music or web. Just strictly a phone.,
The 1st gen iphone from 2007.
Oh yeah. That was pretty good.
a widescreen ipod with touch controls Back then all ipods had the click whell and a small 2.5 or 1.5 screen. Though I wont rerally call the iphone/ipodn touch widescreen. Its more like a standard screen with a bit more added to it.
4GB is fine for a phone that has no apps, no music or web. Just strictly a phone.,
The 1st gen iphone from 2007.
Jb mines too, was amazing with that. But it's funny how it was the best there was back then, yet I use it now and I think it is sooooooo slow.
I'm sure it would. If apple never created the app store I'm sure the iPhone would have died like the speaker system for the ipods. The app store is the top iPhone feature.
I feel the same the original iPhone. Felt so much nicer in your hand. Shame it was stolen off me in a music concert I'd love another one now I have the iPad and may concider buying one off ebay.
They tried to force all developers to develop apps as websites...hahahahah
Some day this will be the way to go, but it is still a little stretch even with HTML5, not due to the web capabilities but due to the carriers business model, as well as any other data provider or airlines.
Some day this will be the way to go, but it is still a little stretch even with HTML5, not due to the web capabilities but due to the carriers business model, as well as any other data provider or airlines.
It honestly was nothing to me back in the day. I only bought one because my husband wanted one - while I wanted the Blackberry Pearl. When I watched the keynote, I was like whatever. However, I was not going to let my husband get an iPhone while I had the other thing.
After I got it, I loved it! It was just a "basic" phone at the time (meaning no apps), but it was the best thing out there at the time. No other phone was able to top it and was as good (at least in my eyes).
After I got it, I loved it! It was just a "basic" phone at the time (meaning no apps), but it was the best thing out there at the time. No other phone was able to top it and was as good (at least in my eyes).
Of course the App store would have been created. Apple knew what they were doing and wanted to do well before they released the iPhone to the public in 2007. They wouldn't have put all that hardware in the iPhone if they only planned for it to just be used as a phone/iPod/internet device. They had it planned from the get go.
Thats not what I heard. I forgot where i read but Apple originally planed those "web apps" for the iphone.
never once did they plan an app store.
Sure easy to say that after they have created it....
They really did hype up web apps before the app store
I loved when Jobs introduced it.
" A widescreen iPod with touch controls"
*crowd goes crazy*
" Second a revolutionary mobile phone"
*crowd goes ballistic and explodes*
" Last a breakthrough internet communications device"
* Crowd goes, " WTF does that mean, but since you're Steve Jobs we will clap and cheer anyway even though not as enthusiastically as the first two".
The crowd reaction to the last feature was funny to me at least.
Even though my 8 GB iPhone was $599, still happy I got it.
Haha, I know, I remember thinking "A new Airport Extreme? Does that really warrant such a big announcement...?"
Yeah my 1st gen iPhone was £189 I believe, but it was still worth it, it was mind blowing to have the internet readily available wherever you were.
I watched that last night too!
He used the term 'Magical' in that keynote too - nowhere near the flack that time!
I also had to watch the 30 Rock episode 'Cutbacks' because I suddenly remembered where I saw the 3 devices/3 shows thing from. It makes me love Tina Fey even more - she watched that keynote
I got my 1st gen just after they'd announced iPhoneOS 2, when O2 had dropped the deactivated iPhone price to £169. I j/bd it and put my Orange sim in. That was awesome fun
He used the term 'Magical' in that keynote too - nowhere near the flack that time!
I also had to watch the 30 Rock episode 'Cutbacks' because I suddenly remembered where I saw the 3 devices/3 shows thing from. It makes me love Tina Fey even more - she watched that keynote
I got my 1st gen just after they'd announced iPhoneOS 2, when O2 had dropped the deactivated iPhone price to £169. I j/bd it and put my Orange sim in. That was awesome fun