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> THERE IS ABSOLUTELY NO WAY THAT A 5W PART LIKE THE A14 IS FASTER THAN A 100W PART LIKE THE i9-10900k "RIM thought iPhone was impossible in 2007": https://web

> THERE IS ABSOLUTELY NO WAY THAT A 5W PART LIKE THE A14 IS FASTER THAN A 100W PART LIKE THE i9-10900k "RIM thought iPhone was impossible in 2007": https://web.archive.org/web/20150517013510/http://www.macnn.com/articles/10/12/27/rim.thought.apple.was.lying.on.iphone.in.2007/ https://web.archive.org/web/20150517013510/http://www.macnn....

gamblor956 6y ago
They thought the iPhone was "impossible" in the sense that it couldn't offer everything it claimed to offer without having terrible battery life. And they were absolutely correct: battery life on the original iPhone was abysmal. But it turns out that consumers didn't care.
- donor20 6y ago
  I used / bought the original iphone and thought it was fine, and the phone was magic. The next one or two though had really bad battery life (iphone 3g?) I mean, 3-5 hours active use down from 7-8 (which meant you needed to charge one in morning or evening usually). Remember, the original iphone had data, but it was pretty slow (but still amazing).
  - oblio 6y ago
    Well, you overlooked the battery side because of other features. But you have to remember that battery life for the average phone back then was measured in the tens of hours. I'd use to leave for the weekend with my Nokia without a charger. A decade later and smartphones aren't there yet. We've just learned to accept the pain :-)
    - photojosh 6y ago
      Put it on low power mode and only use it to make a few calls and send a few texts and an iPhone will easily last a weekend. The real issue is that many people actually use their phones constantly, and it's not just for calls/texts.
- rconti 6y ago
  I don't have the stats, but I know for a fact I've never owned an iPhone (back to the original) that needed to be charged midday. Not much more matters to the average user. And I'm sure there are power users who killed their original iPhone by noon in 2007, and I'm sure there are power users who do the same today.
  - nvrspyx 6y ago
    This was in the time of dumbphones, which had battery life on the span of days, not hours. Compared to cell phones back then, it was relatively abysmal to need to charge your phone once a day. Even Blackberries didn't require daily charging back then IIRC.
    - rconti 6y ago
      For sure. I remember my Ericsson T39 was multi-days, and I think the extended battery (which made it thicker) took it to... 9 days? Maybe more? Insane. Of course, the screen was never on because there was nothing to do with it :)

gamblor956 6y ago

They thought the iPhone was "impossible" in the sense that it couldn't offer everything it claimed to offer without having terrible battery life. And they were absolutely correct: battery life on the original iPhone was abysmal. But it turns out that consumers didn't care.

donor20 6y ago
I used / bought the original iphone and thought it was fine, and the phone was magic. The next one or two though had really bad battery life (iphone 3g?) I mean, 3-5 hours active use down from 7-8 (which meant you needed to charge one in morning or evening usually). Remember, the original iphone had data, but it was pretty slow (but still amazing).
- oblio 6y ago
  Well, you overlooked the battery side because of other features. But you have to remember that battery life for the average phone back then was measured in the tens of hours. I'd use to leave for the weekend with my Nokia without a charger. A decade later and smartphones aren't there yet. We've just learned to accept the pain :-)
  - photojosh 6y ago
    Put it on low power mode and only use it to make a few calls and send a few texts and an iPhone will easily last a weekend. The real issue is that many people actually use their phones constantly, and it's not just for calls/texts.
rconti 6y ago
I don't have the stats, but I know for a fact I've never owned an iPhone (back to the original) that needed to be charged midday. Not much more matters to the average user. And I'm sure there are power users who killed their original iPhone by noon in 2007, and I'm sure there are power users who do the same today.
- nvrspyx 6y ago
  This was in the time of dumbphones, which had battery life on the span of days, not hours. Compared to cell phones back then, it was relatively abysmal to need to charge your phone once a day. Even Blackberries didn't require daily charging back then IIRC.
  - rconti 6y ago
    For sure. I remember my Ericsson T39 was multi-days, and I think the extended battery (which made it thicker) took it to... 9 days? Maybe more? Insane. Of course, the screen was never on because there was nothing to do with it :)