Posted on 06/29/2017 12:16:50 PM PDT by Swordmaker
Ten years ago today Apple shipped a wide-screen iPod with touch controls, a revolutionary mobile phone, and a breakthrough internet device. But it wasn't three products. It was one product. And we got it, Steve. We got iPhone.
On June 28, 2007, Apple shipped the original iPhone. People had been waiting outside for days in lineups that ran for blocks. Anticipation was off the charts. Competitors were nervously dismissing it as a over-reaching and over-priced. Media was calling it the Jesus Phone.
Steve Jobs had put sneaker to stage only six months earlier to introduce it. The most incredible keynote presentations of his life—a life filled with incredible keynote presentations—and in the history of consumer electronics, he'd taken a moment before he started to assemble the team and tell them to remember the moment: The moment before iPhone. Because, in the next moment, everything would change.
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'' I agree about the location of the on/off button. I could not see the benefit in moving it from the default location on all other iOS devices. It causes confusion.
Just think of all those dusty copies of National Geographic and Time magazines going unread on coffee tables in doctors and dentist offices. Everybody is now busy on their mobile devices.
Didn't change my world one whit.
Plus, by my estimation, so far I must be around $8000 ahead if the game.
No, Tex, you did not. Read what the quote you cited said: ". . . fully functional computer. . ." and grasp what that meant. Not a phone with a few pasted on applications with a barely functional interface. The browsing of the internet on those earlier "smartphones" was a crippled mobile experience, that only permitted the use of crippled mobile versions of webpages, the apps were only those supplied by the carrier, and even the users complained about the need to reboot their phones daily to get them to work consistently (If they were Windows phones) if you want to talk about reliability. They were usually quite limited in functionality. . . they were basically what is called today a feature phone.
As for ". . . easy to use," the Blackberry phones came with a 237 page manual that one had to wade through to merely learn how to use one's phone. Others were almost as obtuse in their interfaces. That is not "easy to use."
So, no, Tex, you did not have "all that, and actual reliability years before" the Apple iPhone.
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