iPhone: The 5-Year-Old That Changed the World
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iPhone: The 5-Year-Old That Changed the World
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#2it is still hard to believe now the man behind it is gone.
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#3it is still hard to believe now the man behind it is gone.
I can assure you that Jonathan Ive is still alive and well.
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#4I would have said 6 or 7 if asked. It seems like a lot has happened in that 5 years.
The thing that strikes me about the iPhone, and everyone has their own thing, is this contradiction. For me upon it's release it was so revolutionary. It was such a massive monumental change from its closest rival (Blackberry) in the way it looked, felt and worked. Since that time though, it really has done some small iterations and changed very little. Maybe the two are directly related.
Now to those that will go bananas on (it hasn't changed that much) imagine someone who has never seen any of these phones. Put a 1st gen iPhone next to the comparable blackberry at the time. Then put a 1st gen next to the most recent release. Think of how different each of those two experiences would feel.
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#5I would have said 6 or 7 if asked. It seems like a lot has happened in that 5 years. The thing that strikes me about the iPhone, and everyone has their own thing, is this contradiction. For me upon it's release it was so revolutionary. It was such a massive monumental change from its closest rival (Blackberry) in the way it looked, felt and worked. Since that time though, it really has done some small iterations and…
Why mess with perfection?
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#6I would have said 6 or 7 if asked. It seems like a lot has happened in that 5 years. The thing that strikes me about the iPhone, and everyone has their own thing, is this contradiction. For me upon it's release it was so revolutionary. It was such a massive monumental change from its closest rival (Blackberry) in the way it looked, felt and worked. Since that time though, it really has done some small iterations and…
You could say the same if you were to compare an MS-DOS computer with the original Mac OS and OS X. But I do agree with your point, the biggest advance in usability for iOS has been faster hardware and more memory, rather that more advanced software. My old iPhone 3G seems unusably slow to me now.
I don't think that should be a surprise though. OS software and development frameworks are hard to get right and easy to spoil with badly thought out changes. Apple have been there and done that, so they have a very measured approach to evolving both iOS and OS X.
Google were unbelievably lucky that they had a modern, flexible platform in Android that they were able to very rapidly re-engineer so that it could be competitive with iOS. If it hadn't been for that, Apple would have had the whole smartphone market entirely to themselves for the first 3-4 years, and they'd have deserved it. No wonder Steve Jobs was so pissed at Google.
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#75 years old? FUCK!
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#8I would have said 6 or 7 if asked. It seems like a lot has happened in that 5 years. The thing that strikes me about the iPhone, and everyone has their own thing, is this contradiction. For me upon it's release it was so revolutionary. It was such a massive monumental change from its closest rival (Blackberry) in the way it looked, felt and worked. Since that time though, it really has done some small iterations and…
You could say the same if you were to compare an MS-DOS computer with the original Mac OS and OS X. But I do agree with your point, the biggest advance in usability for iOS has been faster hardware and more memory, rather that more advanced software. My old iPhone 3G seems unusably slow to me now. I don't think that should be a surprise though. OS software and development frameworks are hard to get right and easy to…
Well, they have almost all the profit now, which is what matters most to a company (not so much to its fans though).
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#10Terrible charts. In the line charts you should be comparing height, but the way they're rendered suggests that area should be compared. This is the most egregious: http://8.mshcdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/iphone-5-year... The iPhone revenue has less than half the area but the value is actually bigger.
