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<<Aslan do not speak to me of this magic, I was there meme>> The revelation was that you could talk on your ipod, and that ipod had a really really slick inter

<<Aslan do not speak to me of this magic, I was there meme>> The revelation was that you could talk on your ipod, and that ipod had a really really slick interface. It was running at 60hz, vs the ~20hz of the rivals. The rest, was all marketing fluff. Apart from the itunes store, the only other thing that the iPhone had was google maps, buttery buttery smooth maps. This is kinda what I'm hinting at before. Nokia had this great roadmap to basically deliver what essentially was the ipad (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nokia_770_Internet_Tablet https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nokia_770_Internet_Tablet) However they fucked up the software, had internal teams at war, a conflicted road map, and a chronic inability to deliver. Meta, if they had different leadership could actually make a better, cheaper AVP. probably even with content, as there are so many streaming services out there trying to get a USP. They won't, because meta can't execute. At best meta is going to be the cheapy android of VR, at worst nokia.

Brendinooo 3y ago
Mobile Safari and multitouch were both revelations and revolutionary. If you were there, surely you remember WAP?
- KaiserPro 3y ago
  I do! but WAP was pretty much dead by 2007. It was ok on black and white feature phones, but smart phones had actual browsers. A lot of them shit. Safari's interface was great. Safari was and still is, a bit shit. If you remember, a lot of sites were using flash, and safari couldn't run it (because the iphone didn't have enough ram/cpu spare) The iPhone accelerated the "booo flash is shit, lets use javascript" trend significantly. But that was because the iphone was weak, not because it was strong. More over, it had a critical mass of people that were both webdevs, and target market. In the same way that AVP can't operate on trains/cars that move too much (IMU is used to speed up SLAM) I'm sure there will be a lot of "oh don't use AVP as a passenger, its bad for your health" when its just that the hardware cant do it, without an external IMU reference.
rsynnott 3y ago
> Apart from the itunes store, the only other thing that the iPhone had was google maps, buttery buttery smooth maps. And a _usable browser_, don't forget. No other smartphone at the time had a browser that you could use for more than a few minutes without getting a powerful urge to throw the thing out the window.
- lostmsu 3y ago
  Opera has been usable on mobile since forever (and I am not talking about Mini).

Brendinooo 3y ago

Mobile Safari and multitouch were both revelations and revolutionary. If you were there, surely you remember WAP?

KaiserPro 3y ago
I do! but WAP was pretty much dead by 2007. It was ok on black and white feature phones, but smart phones had actual browsers. A lot of them shit. Safari's interface was great. Safari was and still is, a bit shit. If you remember, a lot of sites were using flash, and safari couldn't run it (because the iphone didn't have enough ram/cpu spare) The iPhone accelerated the "booo flash is shit, lets use javascript" trend significantly. But that was because the iphone was weak, not because it was strong. More over, it had a critical mass of people that were both webdevs, and target market. In the same way that AVP can't operate on trains/cars that move too much (IMU is used to speed up SLAM) I'm sure there will be a lot of "oh don't use AVP as a passenger, its bad for your health" when its just that the hardware cant do it, without an external IMU reference.

rsynnott 3y ago

> Apart from the itunes store, the only other thing that the iPhone had was google maps, buttery buttery smooth maps. And a _usable browser_, don't forget. No other smartphone at the time had a browser that you could use for more than a few minutes without getting a powerful urge to throw the thing out the window.

lostmsu 3y ago
Opera has been usable on mobile since forever (and I am not talking about Mini).