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You might be right about Apple under Tim Cook, and the Vision Pro, but this is revisionist history that I’ve seen repeatedly about the Vision Pro comparing it t
by alphabettsy 3y ago
You might be right about Apple under Tim Cook, and the Vision Pro, but this is revisionist history that I’ve seen repeatedly about the Vision Pro comparing it to the iPhone.
The original iPhone was many thing but certainly not blazing fast. And yea, many people said it not that great now but this is the future, most of the reviews if I remember correctly.
CNET: https://www.cnet.com/tech/mobile/original-iphone-review/ https://www.cnet.com/tech/mobile/original-iphone-review/
Ars: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2007/07/iphone-review/16/#h1 https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2007/07/iphone-review/16/#h1
> “ We love the concept of the iPhone. It's extremely easy to use and almost entirely self-discoverable; the interface looks better than any other phone—smartphone or not—currently on the market, and it's just plain fun to use.”
> “However, we are not buying something else either; we plan to wait to see what software (and hardware) updates might come out for the iPhone in the near future. We believe that the iPhone is cool enough to wait for whatever might come out, and we have confidence that many of the nits we have picked can be fixed through a major software update.”
I remember very frequently switching back and forth between my iPhone and Android or Windows Mobile devices.
- phmqk76 3y agoI owned one shortly after launch day. It was absolutely blazing fast, especially compared with the Moto Q I had just come from. Not the mobile internet speed, of course, the speed of the interface. It was completely smooth and fast unlike any other phone at the time.
- alphabettsy 3y agoThe Moto Q was particularly slow, I had one. Not a great comparison imo. The interface was buttery smooth, everything else was ok especially before the App Store. Once you had third-party apps I remember being disappointed. The 3GS was fast, the original was not. Regardless most of the comment, including that bit imo, is complete revisionism. Almost every review of the original iPhone talks about the imperfection and promise of it.
- phmqk76 3y agoUh, it’s revisionism to say that third party apps were slow, and therefore the iPhone was slow, when the iPhone was out for an entire year before the App Store launched. I’m talking about the original iPhone at launch, not capability that was added a year later. I don’t care what the reviews said, I had one and experienced it, after several years of owning other phones. The reviews also moaned loudly about the software keyboard, which I thought was great on day one. It’s not revisionism that I (and lots of other people) have a different opinion of the iPhone launch than you do.
- seec 3y agoYou really have no clue, if you had owned one you would know how much faster to use it was than pretty much all the competition in practice. Maybe it was beaten on some benchmarks or whatever but it is largely irrelevant and its exactly what people wish Apples would go back to...
- phmqk76 3y agoYup. It was one of those truly magical devices that leap frogged everything else. People who dispute that must not have actually used it when it came out.