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Steve Jobs unveiled the first iPhone 18 years ago
dysamoria said:
iPhones had apps for years before the iPhone 6. iPhone 4 was an acceptable web-consumption, emailing, and note-taking appliance. I even made a silly song on it with GarageBand. Way more than just a phone. I hate large phones. The iPhone 6 (and newer) button placement is garbage ergonomics, and we have to have a kludge to be able to reach the upper quarter of the screen with our thumbs. Apple still hasn’t made the keyboard effective for fast two-thumbed typing (it’s constantly treating two separate taps on two separate letters as a mistake).GeorgeBMac said:Yes, EVENTUALLY the iPhone was a success that changed the market. But neither was it, at least at first, was it the best.Samsung had been making smart phones since the 90's and later the things like the Palm Treo refined the product. The only thing the iPhone really introduced was the larger screen and replacing the stylus with a finger.For myself, I didn't switch till the iPhone 5 -- 5 years later -- and even then I was forced to give up features that I had long valued.
As for the iPhone being the computer for the people: That really didn't happen till much later and even Steve Jobs didn't buy into it. Instead, he felt that the small, hand sized iPhone 4 was the ideal iPhone because "nobody wanted to hold a brick to their ear to talk". In short, he saw the iPhone as a phone first and a computer second. Apple didn't go the computer route (with a large screen) until after Jobs had died when they released the iPhone 6.
As a side note, I still hold on to my iPhone 4. I use it as an iPod because bloated websites made it nearly useless for the internet. Everything else would’ve been fine if not for that, and for Apple’s bloated & buggy iOS 7, which I still refuse to put on it (iOS 6.x forever, if I can help it).Yes, the iPhone did have apps prior to the iPhone 6. But then so did all of its competitors and, from my experience, prior to the iphone 5 or so, they had better ones (or at least ones that served my purposes better). But each was still primarily a phone with apps. It was Samsung who originally came out with large screens oriented towards computing but looked ridiculous held up on the side of your face and Steve Jobs agreed. He wanted something that could fit and be used comfortably in and by one hand. But, after he passed, Apple relented to the criticism and came out with the larger screened iPhone 6 and the device went from being primarily a phone to primarily computer.The Palm Treo and earlier versions were simply and physically two devices in one: a cell phone and an "organizer" running Palm's OS jammed together into a single device.
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Steve Jobs unveiled the first iPhone 18 years ago
Yes, EVENTUALLY the iPhone was a success that changed the market. But neither was it, at least at first, was it the best.Samsung had been making smart phones since the 90's and later the things like the Palm Treo refined the product. The only thing the iPhone really introduced was the larger screen and replacing the stylus with a finger.For myself, I didn't switch till the iPhone 5 -- 5 years later -- and even then I was forced to give up features that I had long valued.
As for the iPhone being the computer for the people: That really didn't happen till much later and even Steve Jobs didn't buy into it. Instead, he felt that the small, hand sized iPhone 4 was the ideal iPhone because "nobody wanted to hold a brick to their ear to talk". In short, he saw the iPhone as a phone first and a computer second. Apple didn't go the computer route (with a large screen) until after Jobs had died when they released the iPhone 6.
