Comment on Apple users bash new iPhone 15: ‘Innovation died with Steve Jobs’
BobKerman3999@feddit.it 9 months agoSo what you’re saying is that it was an evolution of stuff already on the market. I mean the iPhone didn’t even have apps when it came out
Apple coined the term App with the introduction of the App Store. They weren’t called that before the iPhone. That’s how influential the iPhone and its ecosystem were.
I can’t stand Apple’s ecosystem, but pretending like it wasn’t a major shift is just weird.
They were called applications or programs… the big innovation was the walled garden store only from which you can install programs. Before that you went to the software developer 's website and downloaded the package
BorgDrone@lemmy.one 9 months ago
It was absolutely a revolution.
The relevant definition of revolution: “a dramatic and wide-reaching change in conditions, attitudes, or operation.”
It didn’t matter if the technology already existed, hardly anyone was using it. Capacitive touchscreens existed, but there was no dramatic change, they were just used in the same way as resistive touchscreens. It was a different way of building a touchscreen, but very much an evolutionary change.
The iPhone was a revolution because it caused a dramatic and almost overnight change in the industry. What techies usually fail to see it that technology doesn’t matter. What matters is how it is used and what it allows people to do.