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> The second difference is that the iPhone foretold how people were going to use phones in the future. I don't know if I buy that. Watch the original iPhone a
by xw39011 3y ago
> The second difference is that the iPhone foretold how people were going to use phones in the future.
I don't know if I buy that. Watch the original iPhone announcement. Steve spent most of the time talking about what a great phone it was and how much better voicemail is. Connecting to the internet was tacked on to the end of the presentation.
"Now, what’s the killer app?
The killer app is making calls!"
I don't think that's foretelling how people were going to use phones in the future.
- camgunz 3y agoNah. I'm rewatching and they have the whole "breakthrough internet communicator" thing right at the top, and he makes fun of existing smartphones for only having the "baby internet". Also there weren't apps at first, the whole thing was supposed to use web apps (Carmack famously gave Jobs the hard sell on apps). But aside from all that, the point was the UX. There's the whole "smartphones are hard to use" angle which was really the raison d'etre for the whole thing. And now? Phones work like the iPhone worked.