Having worked in windows mobile during pocket pc through us finally giving up on the phone, this thread is threatening my mental health
1983 - LisaOS
Xerox were actually the first company to come up with these devices concept of the mouse and GUI but Apple were the first to launch the tech, and developed it to work in a way that persists today.
Yeah, if my 68 year old mom and dad can use a device (iPhone), you know it's a brilliant design, they're fucking morons when it comes to tech, they're morons in many other aspects, tech especially.I think Steve Jobs was good at two things. One: he would really push the 'keep it simple, stupid' philosophy on the hardware and software engineers at Apple computers. Computer hardware that was simple to set up, operating systems that didn't require a manual to understand. The original iOS was one or two layers deep when it comes to menu systems. The whole system was easy to understand.
The second thing he was good at, was being a pitch man. Meaning that he could almost sell anyone on anything.
I think Apple brought a lot of conveniences to the home computer and phone market that were adopted by other tech companies. No I am not crediting Apple for creating the home computer, or the OS. Xerox PARC was a great innovator in a lot of this tech and concepts. IBM innovated a lot of stuff. Microsoft could bring together engineers to inviolate a lot of things. But Apple was good at bring convinces to the computer and later phone world. But unfortunately it was always at a premium price tag.
Throughout most of the 1980's, 90's and early 00's, Steve Jobs and many other tech oriented people were obsessed with bringing Alan Kay's Dynabook concept into fruition. The Dynabook was conceived all the way back in 1972 at Xerox PARC. Apples first real attempt at creating a Dynabook was the Apple Newton in 1992. Steve Jobs considered the iPAD to be a fleshed out version of the Dynabook. Lots of computer companies were working towards this...
iPhones use USB-C as the standard.
Airdrop might be better than drag n drop but quickshare is better and easier to use than Airdrop.
Now I don't feel so bad about my $2.5K MacBookSame but cheaper.
Edit: Sent from my £4k Macbook.
That'll seem an even bigger bargain once the tariffs hit.
But you know when they do get around to it, they'll do it right, and it won't be like the ones that exist today.
Seriously you guys cling to this narrative like a drowning man to a piece of driftwood. The ones that exist today are already done right, not even a millimeter thicker than a slab phone, barely visible crease, awesome multitasking, durable with good cameras. If you guys weren't so insular you would know that.
I've heard about creasing issues from all of them, some just take longer to show up.
I have a twofold question. Do you think the Chinese aren't working on eliminating the crease and do you think Apple will beat them to the punch? Innovation is expensive and Apple is very beholden to their shareholders. This is the reason they don't have the best camera sensors on the market in their iphones.
They no doubt are, question is if Apple will use a different approach to solving it.
It's crazy when you think about how Xerox was just sitting on the entire future of home computing with their Xerox PARC group, and yet they had no idea what to do with any of it. It has been said in the past, that Xerox could have owned the entire computer industry. But they were happy with sticking to photo copying and digital press. Which is still viable. They were the ones who showed off the OS and mouse to Apple. I think they ended up getting Apple stock options in return.
This was the first android phone though. Didn't arrive until 2008. No idea what that thing is.
Please elaborate, this sounds very interesting. Are you talking about software or hardware for example?
Pretty sure Nintendo were the first to use a d-pad with their Game & Watch portables, no?
When you consider that the Japanese won't buy Samsung smartphones because they are Korean and Sharp and Sony phones aren't great and they're expensive. The market share isn't that impressive. Another funny thing is the Japanese use Line instead ibubble or whatever it's adoption rate is over 70%.Japan's Galapagos phones were impressive in the early 00s, that's it.
The iPhone caught them off guard just as much as it did Nokia, Palm and BlackBerry. Despite this the Japanese reluctantly stuck to their flip phones (as did much of their industry).
Now iPhone dominates Japan.
Apple iPhone takes 51.9% share of Japan's smartphone market
According to International Data Corporation ’s (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker, in 2023Q4, Japan’s shipments of mobile…macdailynews.com
Both. Before I had kids my wife and I would go fairly often to Japan and I would always scope out the phones and bring back stuff with me from Docomo and such. They were already streaming videos to their phones early 2000s and their hardware allowed you to film and adjust you phone like a view finder hardware wise. I'll see if I can dig up some of the pamphlets. Not only this but they were able to do what appeared to be software shell customizations. While we, in the states, initially targetted the IT market, they were focused on the consumer market (because we were working with Japan together windows mobile in the it market there.)I really can't recommend this book enough. It's one of the best biographies I've read. It's entertaining from beginning to end and really makes you appreciate what an unique individual he was. It also gives you a sense of the Silicon Valley mentality.
Please elaborate, this sounds very interesting. Are you talking about software or hardware for example?
In 2007 the original iPhone had a 2 megapixel the Nokia n95 had a 5 megapixel camera. I get giving credit where credit is due but this is ridiculous. Today anyone who has used a flagship Chinese phone knows how bad Iphone's cameras are. Don't take my word for it go on YouTube and check iPhone vs. pretty much any Chinese flagship phone.
I love reading about early 00's/pre iPhone tech. I got a Nokia 7650 and was the first one in my school with a camera phone. This was in Sweden around 2003. Students from other classes would come to me to look at it. A teacher even banned it from school because I once used a free version of a program that would distort how people looked but it wasn't able to snap pictures. But I guess some classmates didn't appreciate me and my friends pointing it towards them and laughing.
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