Not for anyone that knew about mobiles…
Comment on Apple users bash new iPhone 15: ‘Innovation died with Steve Jobs’
Xia@jlai.lu 1 year agoYeah because the first iPhone wasn’t a Revolution,
BobKerman3999@feddit.it 1 year ago
ShittyRedditWasBetter@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Yeah bruh, you could have had a super fucking revolutionary sidekick, Windows PDA missing capacitive touch, of if you were really special a blackberry!
The mental gymnastics of you people.
BobKerman3999@feddit.it 1 year ago
No dude, there were already symbian touchscreen devices on the market
ShittyRedditWasBetter@lemmy.world 1 year ago
What symbian device had a capacitive multi touch display in 2007?
BorgDrone@lemmy.one 1 year ago
Doesn’t mean the iPhone wasn’t revolutionary.
I was (and still am) a mobile app developer at the time. We had every major phone on the market in our office for testing purposes. Literally hundreds of different phones. You name any popular (and less popular) phone on the market at that time and I can guarantee you I’ve used it extensively.
The iPhone was absolutely revolutionary. However, it wasn’t because of a specific piece of technology, it was execution.
Symbian touch-screen phones existed, they were slow and laggy. The UI was nothing like the iPhone, which is built around directly manipulating UI elements with your finger. It seems obvious now, but back then it wasn’t. You could use the touch screen to manipulate a tiny scrollbar.
The closest thing to the iPhone was the LG Prada (KE850), which had a capacitive touch screen and the same scrolling mechanism as iPhone. However, it was small, had a tiny screen and was relatively slow. The software was also very limited, it was basically a feature phone, not a smartphone.
The iPhone was basically the first phone that got all of it right.
June@lemm.ee 1 year ago
i was working in mobile at the time, and it was my job to keep up with the leading tech. i was using a Palm Treo when the iPhone was released, which was arguably the most advanced PDA phone at the time with blackberry being the primary competitor.
i vividly remember watching the announcement from the iphone and being shaken with how the device worked. the fact that you interact with it without a stylus, the highest resolution screen available on a PDA phone, combining the functionality of an ipod, phone, and rich HTML internet browsing device, and the fucking triple layered capacitive multi-touch touch screen were absolutely revolutionary. to say anything else is revisionist history. no one else had anything remotely like it.
and anyone who knew anything about mobiles at the time knew it was revolutionary and that the world was changing that day.
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 1 year ago
It was not revolutionary in the sense of technology, it was revolutionary in the sense of getting the general public to understand and accept the idea of a smartphone.
Niiru@feddit.de 1 year ago
So they had “innovative marketing”, ok.
bigschnitz@lemmy.world 1 year ago
People always down vote when I point that out as well lol. Windows mobile was already moving towards icon based UIs pre iPhone, so while the UI was a definite improvement it wasn’t the revolution it’s made out to be. The iPhone 1 had no app store or 3g so was not good for emails and, back in 2007 when flash still mattered, couldn’t access most of the Internet where windows phone could. I’m pretty sure it was successful purely based on the iPods popularity, at least until the iPhone 3gs and app store came out and it iPhone became arguably a better smartphone than those that came before.
HellAwaits@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Translation: “I blindly hate Apple and I have no idea what I’m talking about.”
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Um… I’m on a Macbook right now and I have an iPhone.