Op-Ed Happy birthday, iPhone: Ten years later, Steve Jobs' creation owns us

LA Times ^ | June 22, 2017 | By Virginia Heffernan

[SamAdams76]

I don't care what the naysayers or "never owned one" crowd has to say here. The iPhone literally changed the world. And while many like to debate the merits of iOs vs Android, the fact is that Android OS is a total carbon copy of the iOs based iPhone and wouldn't exist today if not for it.

I sometimes forget that I can make phone calls on my iPhone. I use it for so many other things. Storing tickets for shows. Paying for most of my transactions. Getting much of my work done. Keeping track of my exercise and diet. Ordering things to my house like razor blades, food, and clothes. Watching movies. Reading books. List goes on and on.

[higgmeister]

Op-Ed Happy birthday, iPhone: Ten years later, Steve Jobs' creation owns us

Speak for yourself mental Lilliputian.

[higgmeister]

I have a Samsung galaxy Note 3 (that's with a stylus like my old Palm LifeDrive and Zire).

When my daughter calls on my wife's iPhone 6 and wants to talk to me I can hardly hear at all with the volume up all the way. Every iPhone I have seen is a piece of junk.

Although the iPhone camera gets rid of my dog's lazer eyes when my Note 3 can't.

[Flick Lives]

I miss Steve Jobs. Apple is not the same without him.

[doorgunner69]

Never owned an Apple anything or likely ever will.

Never felt the need for any sort of twit phone either, so I could walk around staring at the damn thing like a fool.

[huldah1776]

Me neither, but I think it’s only because I really hate buying anything because of a name or for the prestige or because everyone is doing it. I do like Macs for graphic design though. Just can’t afford it.

I wonder why I’m like that. Eh, who cares.

[Roscoe Karns]

Just as a side note, one thing I don’t use my iPhone for is reading Free Republic, the desktop format doesn’t read well on a phone. FR should look into getting a mobile format. I don’t know how easy or difficult it would be to do that but it would make surfing FR on your phone a lot easier. (I know, first world problems)

[AFreeBird]

I consider my iPhone as an electric Leatherman. It’s quite a useful tool.

[gibsonguy]

“I miss Steve Jobs. Apple is not the same without him.”

I must agree. No one has matched his showmanship when it comes to Tech rollouts. He could really put on a show. He was a man who had an instinct for knowing what people wanted before they did. No question Apple is not the same without him they just don’t innovate the way they did.

[Phillyred]

Agree Android so MUCH better. And micro SD storage. No itunes dependency. Lovely.

[Svartalfiar]

I don’t know how easy or difficult it would be to do that but it would make surfing FR on your phone a lot easier. (I know, first world problems)

When I'm on FR on my phone, each new page opens with a small tab on the bottom that offers to make the page mobile-friendly, and it eliminates a lot of the framing and whatnot. Looks like the printer-version of any article. Using the Brave browser on Android 6.0.1, works just great!