The DS has got a resistive touch screen.
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The iPhone is 10 years old
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The DS has got a resistive touch screen.
smokeandmirrors
Banned
the moto droid 2 on verizon really soured my experience on android so much that ive been iphone ever since. lol.
i know android's changed and things are better but meh. inertia is hard to overcome and im more than satisfied.
i know android's changed and things are better but meh. inertia is hard to overcome and im more than satisfied.
hoverboarder
Member
Was rocking the blue Chocolate 2 at the time.. felt so sleek until my friend got an iPhone.
Afro Thunder
Member
The first time I touched an iPhone in later 2007 it was like magic (I had an iPod back then). I've never been so impacted by technology like that day. Amazing device.
Good times. I think I was rocking a N95 at the time? That was a sweet phone itself but my mind was simply blown away when the iPhone was first revealed.
After using a bunch of trash like the LG Chocolate and Razr for years, it was mind blogging to use a full fledged browser and having a goddamn iPod in my phone (unlike that shit Rokr, remember that?).
I remember it being $600 on fucking contract and me as a frugal teen saving up my allowance for one. It dropped to 200 pretty quickly after public outcry and I was all over it.
The iPhone in its infancy was barebones af. No App Store, no wallpapers LOL, no MMS, no copy paste etc etc. Even so, it felt hell of a lot more futuristic than other phones.
I remember moving over to Blackberry for a while until the real revolution dropped with the iPhone 4. Even using turds like the Motorola Droid which had nothing in the App Store except Papi Jump and other D-Tier apps. iPhone 4 bringing the 4G, high res screen, luxury build and many others just transformed them into the top dog in the smartphone realm.
If those early Android renders were anything to go by, we'd still be rocking those qwerty keyboards and a terrible ecosystem governed by mobile carriers. Hell, Silicon Valley itself would be a completely different landscape as well.
Even 10 years later, we have a ton of companies trying to copy everything about the iPhone. They completely revolutionized everything about smartphones and quite possibly our everyday lives so show some damn respect ✊.
After using a bunch of trash like the LG Chocolate and Razr for years, it was mind blogging to use a full fledged browser and having a goddamn iPod in my phone (unlike that shit Rokr, remember that?).
I remember it being $600 on fucking contract and me as a frugal teen saving up my allowance for one. It dropped to 200 pretty quickly after public outcry and I was all over it.
The iPhone in its infancy was barebones af. No App Store, no wallpapers LOL, no MMS, no copy paste etc etc. Even so, it felt hell of a lot more futuristic than other phones.
I remember moving over to Blackberry for a while until the real revolution dropped with the iPhone 4. Even using turds like the Motorola Droid which had nothing in the App Store except Papi Jump and other D-Tier apps. iPhone 4 bringing the 4G, high res screen, luxury build and many others just transformed them into the top dog in the smartphone realm.
If those early Android renders were anything to go by, we'd still be rocking those qwerty keyboards and a terrible ecosystem governed by mobile carriers. Hell, Silicon Valley itself would be a completely different landscape as well.
Even 10 years later, we have a ton of companies trying to copy everything about the iPhone. They completely revolutionized everything about smartphones and quite possibly our everyday lives so show some damn respect ✊.
ElBoxyBrown
Banned
"Apple is stupid! What if you put it in your pockets and your car keys scratch the screen? This thing will bomb!"
Me too. I think it was the first smartphone with two cameras (front and rear).
I remember my coworker asking me why I would want to have a phone with two cameras. I told him to take pictures, video or make Skype calls. He responded why would you want to do that?
sixteen-bit
Member
Happy anniversary. I still remember when my co-worker got the 1st gen one on launch. He gave me his old Samsung Blackjack with Windows Mobile 6.
This is some mandela effect shit, I pretty clearly remember it releasing in 2008. I think that might have just been the app store? Either way I don't remember the iPhone release at all now I suppose.
Still haven't owned one. Finally got on the Smartphone train in 2012 with the Galaxy S3 (upgraded to an S7 last year), though the thing has never been essential to my life.
Still haven't owned one. Finally got on the Smartphone train in 2012 with the Galaxy S3 (upgraded to an S7 last year), though the thing has never been essential to my life.
QuantumZebra
Member
Ah I remember when I had my 3GS.
I had just been to a Dead Confederate concert and taken pictures with the singer and other funny once-in-a-lifetime shit.
iTunes said I had an update and then it proceeded to wipe and brick my phone.
Went Android and never looked back. Thanks Apple <3
I had just been to a Dead Confederate concert and taken pictures with the singer and other funny once-in-a-lifetime shit.
iTunes said I had an update and then it proceeded to wipe and brick my phone.
Went Android and never looked back. Thanks Apple <3
Getting front facing cameras into the hands of the masses was a mistake
Ravensmash
Member
Kind of crazy seeing and being part of the timeline in which smartphones have just dominated the world.
I remember the early days of mobile Internet - WAP anyone?
We've gone from a phone being a phone to it just being a personal computer.
The iPhone undoubtedly helped push that, but I'm an android guy
I remember the early days of mobile Internet - WAP anyone?
We've gone from a phone being a phone to it just being a personal computer.
The iPhone undoubtedly helped push that, but I'm an android guy
Zeyphersan
Banned
I remember telling people (and truly believing) I prefer having a separate phone and iPod Touch to carry around! Why combine them when theyre better as specialized devices?
I may have been a moron
Yoshimitsu126
Member
Can't believe it's been ten years and no apple green color model has been made yet.
Zeyphersan
Banned
The iPhone 8 will come in seven colors: black, jet black, gold, rose gold, silver, product red, and granny smith
Harlock
Member
This book looks very interesting. But is kind of sad how people personal life need to be crushed if you choose to work in this kind of product.
https://www.theverge.com/2017/6/13/...et-history-iphone-brian-merchant-book-excerpt
https://www.theverge.com/2017/6/13/...et-history-iphone-brian-merchant-book-excerpt
ElBoxyBrown
Banned
I was rockin the Samsung Beat back then:
Good times.
Good times.
Safari was also a revelation on the device. What was the competition. Pocket internet explorer? Lol. Safari actually made looking at the internet on your phone an enjoyable thing. Opera Mini was the closest example I could remember.... but that was it for a LONG time until android
No flash support was also nice. Didn't have to have that big things down and also helped promote the change to HTML 5
I remember Microsoft immediately showed a "deep fish" demo of a web browser that looked like mobile safari. Has remained vapor ware
No flash support was also nice. Didn't have to have that big things down and also helped promote the change to HTML 5
I remember Microsoft immediately showed a "deep fish" demo of a web browser that looked like mobile safari. Has remained vapor ware
Zeyphersan
Banned
I literally had an old lady ask me a couple months ago when her iPad was going to support flash. I didnt know what to say.
Papu
Member
That's what advertising focus groups tell you, sheeple.
Technically he was right, his contention that at $600 with a two year contract will struggle.
Few months later Apple slashed the price by a third.
It wasn't until apple conceded with the 3G and went with the traditional carrier subsidised model did it really take off.
Rentahamster
Rodent Whores
Thanks, Apple. Game changing device.
Roland_Gunner
Member
I was a very junior support rep at apple when Jobs announced the iphone. It was like Jean Luc Picard beamed in from the future or something. Everyone who owned stock was freaking out.
Skel1ingt0n
I can't *believe* these lazy developers keep making file sizes so damn large. Btw, how does technology work?
I remembered getting the 3GS and wanting to tell everyone the weather (cause that gave me an excuse to show them how awesome the phone was)
This image feels like how things were:
I had the first iPhone, and can vividly recall nearly 75% of those that I showed it to saying "yeah, that's cool but I'll NEVER buy a phone with a touchscreen keyboard."
I'd argue about how surprisingly accurate it is. How it only takes a few days to get used to. How it's only going to get better. How the extra screen real estate is worth it. How you don't have to deal with a single "stuck" key. How there's so much room for enhancement and unique KBs in the future.
Didn't matter. "never," they said.
Barely
Pagusas
Elden Member
I remember that from the blackberry crowd. My oh my were those people stubborn.
AzureSkies
Member
I've been using iOS for about a year now and my Safari has never crashed.
Was rocking the blue Chocolate 2 at the time.. felt so sleek until my friend got an iPhone.
I had a maroon Chocolate 2
I beat Mega Man 2 using that crappy numpad
Poor GRIMES
Banned
mmmmmm the apple salt in here is delicious
I still like to go back and watch the press conference where Steve Jobs unveiled the thing, and even today it's still pretty mind-blowing. All those easy and intuitive touch features set the standard for at least a generation. It's crazy to think that nobody was doing stuff like seamlessly shifting between portrait and landscape viewing....pinch zooms....touch a phone number on a web page to call it....visual voicemail that pushes audio messages to you rather than forces you to call in to a service. Almost everybody was trying to build an entirely separate set of websites for mobile users and Apple was basically aiming for "Here's the websites you want, looking and performing (nearly) as good as they do on a desktop, without requiring site makers to build mobile versions".
I remember that all I wanted from the iPhone was a basic numpad touchphone with a scroll-wheel and MP3/video playback functions so I could stop carrying around a separate MP3 player. I couldn't believe how far they had exceeded my expectations.....I thought all that web browsing and email stuff was just for business-oriented power-users.
I remember that all I wanted from the iPhone was a basic numpad touchphone with a scroll-wheel and MP3/video playback functions so I could stop carrying around a separate MP3 player. I couldn't believe how far they had exceeded my expectations.....I thought all that web browsing and email stuff was just for business-oriented power-users.
Do you really think every iteration of the iPhone was just a spec upgrade?
Please remember how barebones the original iPhone was compared to what we have today. No Siri, no GPS, no 3G, no apps or App Store, no front-facing camera. You couldn't even type text messages in landscape mode. Its notification system was, by modern standards, not even a notification system.....it was just dialog box that popped up when something kind of important happened. There was no multi-tasking beyond the web browser and music and emial.
Beyond even the hardware, you have to consider how much they changed the entire mobile business model. Remember that there was a time when wireless companies thought they deserved a monetary share of anything their customers bought on a phone. There was a time when wireless companies thought they should be able to load up all phones with their own proprietary services and bloatware. It wasn't until the iPhone 4 and 4S that they pretty much had to give up and adopt more open standards. iPhone was AT&T exclusive for 3+ years.
Haha, I underestimated it and my needs as well... All my music and a phone too? Sold! I got in at the 3GS and still look at my 4S as the Holy Grail.... A real thing of beauty.
Edit, and honestly not even an Apple fan. Believe or not.
hairygreenpeas
Neo Member
I remember when I got a Zune during middle school. At one point, people legitimately thought it was an iPhone in the flesh, and I was very confused because I was completely unaware of the iPhone's existence at the time lol. They were everywhere in high school though, but it wasn't until 2016 that I decided to take the plunge into iOS. I have been enjoying my iPhone 7 Plus since.
(... though I may also be somewhat salty? Because iPhone 8 is shaping up to be a very attractive-looking device, and I feel obligated to keep my 7 Plus for a couple more years because I paid so much for it.)
(... though I may also be somewhat salty? Because iPhone 8 is shaping up to be a very attractive-looking device, and I feel obligated to keep my 7 Plus for a couple more years because I paid so much for it.)
I still hang onto my iPod classic for this reason. It's now ten years old and still running like a champ holding all my music, and with my old car the only way I can change songs without killing myself and others is with the physical click wheel I never have to look at.
But I think a lot of people didn't realize that, especially with stuff like the integrated cameras, "good" + "always on me" is far more important to most people than "very good" but requires another, bulkier camera. The appeal of one gadget to rule them all seems to have been fulfilled; aside from niche accessories like smartwatches and VR/AR capacities it seems like phones are going to remain the forefront of computing for a lot of people in the foreseeable future.
I was never an Apple fan either.
I actually got an iPod as a bonus from work in 2006, and made this now cringe-inducing thread where I complained about all the things it couldn't do:
www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=121868
Poimandres
Member
I'm openly critical of Apple, but gotta give it up for a truly revolutionary game changing device. In my life time, I think the rise of smart phones is second only to widespread internet access in terms of advances that define whole time periods.
PDA cellphones weren't a new thing at the time, but the iPhone sure made it look pretty and gave it mass appeal even if the start was rough. This video is about what these kind of phones looked to the average joe: something for middle management and day traders to seal deals and get richer at some coffee shop
I used to be in the physical keyboard crowd, then that swipe to write keyboard came to be and it was the light that showed the way (and made it easy to write on my ~3" screen device)
I laughed for ages. Hahahaha