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The real invention is taking technology and packaging it in a human way that takes a baby seconds to learn. I didn’t have to teach my one year old how to swipe
by mailslot 8y ago
The real invention is taking technology and packaging it in a human way that takes a baby seconds to learn. I didn’t have to teach my one year old how to swipe photos.
Touch screens existed and confounded people for decades. Just watch the average person use a touch screen ATM. Still not great.
It all seems so obvious in retrospect because iPhones have defined so much of how everything works now.
The original iPhone was a product no one else had the vision or balls to build.
- macintux 8y agoI hear people argue that someone would have invented it without Apple, but my counter-argument is that it would have still had a hardware keyboard tucked away, whoever built it wouldn't know how to market it, it would have been just one among dozens of devices at the carrier's stores, and it would have vanished after a few months of languishing there. Apple moved the world to make it succeed. No one else would have.