[Swordmaker]

The iPhone has come a long way in the 8 years since it was first announced by Steve Jobs on January 8, 2007. Here is a retrospective look at the limitations of that first model. — PING!

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[Jet Jaguar]

Bump

[Vince Ferrer]

I still like this:

iPhone4 vs HTC Evo

Profanity warning, but funny.

[ziravan]

If I could just get a USB port on my IPad, it’d be awesome. I’m not sure why Apple insists on no data interface.

[fireman15]

I purchased a Sprint PPC-6700 in December of 2005. It had the Windows Mobile 5 operating system. It was very tweakable right from the start and in town it got approximately 1000 kbps download speed on the Sprint EVDO Network. At that time this was nearly as fast as my cable modem.

At that time Sprint customer support actually gave me instructions on how to “tether” the phone to my laptop through a USB cable. Calls would still ring through while the phone was tethered to the laptop. I had a very reasonably priced truly unlimited data plan from Sprint and this was one of the primary uses for the phone.

By the time the first iPhone approximately 2 years later, I knew how to get the most out of the PPC-6700 and I wasn’t very impressed with the capabilities of the iPhone. I especially could not figure out why the iPhone didn’t come with high speed cellular data as the PPC-6700 did.

For our next “smart phones” we picked Sprint Touch Pro 2 phones. They had the “Windows Mobile 6” operating system which had a few small improvements over WM5 which came on the PPC-6700. The TP2s had better screens than the PPC-6700s and faster processors, but functionally there were only evolutionary changes. It was a very easy transition for us and we used them for several years before switching to Android Phones.

The Android phones were more capable than the Windows Mobile phones but there was a bit of a learning curve. So we didn’t appreciate the improvements as much as we might have.

Flash forward a couple more years and my wife and I have retired and we switched to Ting which is a low cost reseller of Sprint cell phone service. They charge by your actual usage. There is no activation fee and it is only $6 a month to add an additional cell phone to your account. So I re-activated one of the Touch Pro 2 phones. I had fond memories from when we were using them and I still remembered how to get the most from one.

Now that we are accustomed to using Android phones using the TP2 again was a pain in the butt. Within a couple of months I replaced it with a used Samsung S3 Android phone that I purchased for $90 on eBay. The newer phones are much better compared to the older phones. Functionally the TP2s will do most of what the Androids will do, but the experience is not nearly as pleasant, and if I hadn’t spent several years using Windows Mobile OS phones it would have been worse.

It is about the same as switching back to an older computer. There are all of the little conveniences that speed and power provide that you get used to. When you go back it is a difficult adjustment to make.

[wardaddy]

Ok

I have a large family

Two iPads

One iPad mini

Five iPhones

One MacBook

I finally gave up my 4 year old razr droid and bought a 6+

I owned a 4s long ago and gave it up because it had reverb on Bluetooth or auxiliary plug to truck speakers which is what I need to hear

499 with verizon upgrade....i have 11 lines

Plenty upgrade on my 100 gig plan

Data usage on verizon for business used to be unlimited free

Bastards

Pros on iPhone 6+:

graphics...of course

Siri....she cannot be overstated for us with southern accents....the rest only understand Yankee pitch and tone

The text keyboard is great

Text ergonomics good

Camera....I like

iTunes Bluetooth or wired to big driver speaker...great...much better....it’s like Klipsch versus Beats..no contest

Photos....good
Copy and paste magnifying glass...great

I don’t game....silly....grown men 45

I’m still learning good stuff.....overall ergonomics great....this is their raison de voire

Bad stuff on iphone6+:

Apple itself....snarky and arrogant paranoid uber proprietary outfit....if they don’t make it they make it difficult....if they do make it....u pay for

Droids are much more open ware technology...no cult club following

No scheduled auto text...with many businesses and 5 kids this matters....I can’t text workers at 4 when I recall something important

Will not work with 2014 Silverado Bluetooth.....this is simply unacceptable for a retail 1000 dollar phone

And I counted on it...I drive 130-150000 miles a year in this truck alone

Text message alert sounds....do not work....a well known issue......I live by text

I haven’t decided yet...I almost bought the big screen Galaxy Edge

A platform I know well....similar to Motorola

I bought this cause I love apple ergo but jury is out trending iffy

I chose this over the Samsung cause if I flare off one of my kids would prefer it over an android

Kids stuff and gaming...it rox

Business use....not so much...at least not yet

[9thLife]

I still use a 3s.

[fwdude]

I’ve been an iPhone user for about a year and a half now, and it has made me an Apple product hater. Let me begin to list the problems with their products....

[2ndDivisionVet]

[Eric Pode of Croydon]

And there is still no handwriting recognition, like my Palm PDA had in 1998. I hate those dinky onscreen keyboards.

[bgill]

I still don’t have one nor care to have one. For the cost, I’d rather put food on the table and pay the electric bill.

[GOP Poet]

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[Organic Panic]

It was so bad it turned apple in to a trillion dollar company. I wish I had those kinds of failures.