For better or worse the iPhone hit the market today 16 years ago changing the world forever.

  • African_Grey@beehaw.orgOPEnglish
    61·
    1 year ago

    I’m going to disagree with basically everything you just said. It reads like someone who simply doesn’t like Apple. Brand standing if you will.

    • sarsaparilyptus@lemmy.fmhy.mlEnglish
      21·
      1 year ago

      You need to sharpen your reading comprehension skills, I don’t have any problem with Apple and their products are fine. The 1st and 2nd get iPhones were less functional than the devices they purported to supplant by a wide margin, and the 3GS was the first actually good device they made. That’s all right there in the text, you just have to look with your eyeballs and put the words through the critical thinking part of your brain instead of the emotional reaction part. Even in 2007 it was laughable that you couldn’t connect to WiFi with a purported smart device. Its feature base sucked ass till the 3GS, and now they’re fine; the only reason I don’t use an iPhone is because I prefer auditable FOSS, hence I use an Android device with an AOSP-based ROM and no Gplay Services. If it wasn’t for that, the iPhone would be a fine alternative.

      • African_Grey@beehaw.orgOPEnglish
        41·
        1 year ago

        I stopped reading at >You need to sharpen your reading comprehension skills

        No need for insulting others.

      • beefcat@kbin.social
        2·
        1 year ago

        You claimed the iPhone didn’t change the market, but it did.

        I don’t think any competitors would have eaten Apple’s lunch if the iPhone launched 6 months later. They may have had more features out of the box, but it took years for anyone else to catch up to the iPhone’s UX and build quality. Features like copy+paste didn’t matter as much as having YouTube anywhere you go on a 3.5" screen and a mobile web browsing experience that wasn’t cancer.

        All one needs to do is look at the rapid u-turn Android took in design after the iPhone launched to see how much of an impact it had. Before the iPhone, Android phones were going to look like Blackberries.

    • PechenteEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      Yeah it’s amazing that some people don’t realise how much the first iPhone changed. Smartphones were absolute garbage before it. Sure, my Windows Molbile phone had more features on paper but it was heavy af and the interface was terrible, buggy and cumbersome to use. The iPhone made that all easier and introduced UI patterns that are still being used in almost every product with a touch screen to this date.