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I had the iPod Touch and iPhone relatively early (well, much earlier than the general population). I don't remember Shazam being important at all, I think I onl
by microtonal 1y ago
I had the iPod Touch and iPhone relatively early (well, much earlier than the general population). I don't remember Shazam being important at all, I think I only discovered it a few years later.
What blew pretty much everyone away that I showed it is how incredibly smooth web browsing was (remember, there were no apps on the original iPhone and even after that it took a little while for apps to really take off). Most smartphones at the time had clunky resistive touch screens or even little joysticks to move a mouse pointer. With the iPhone, you could scroll with your fingers and it was butter-smooth (at least for the day). The iPhone was a game-changer because you had a device in your pocket that you could browse the web with and it was at least as easy as on a desktop, if not easier.
Just for comparison, this is how you browsed the web at the time on probably the most iconic smartphone at the time (Blackberry):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5NuQrjBIofo&t=6s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5NuQrjBIofo&t=6s
and on an iPhone:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=euNlVt60hwk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=euNlVt60hwk
- raudette 1y agoI second this - for me, it was the browser - it was usable with normal websites. It was SO much better at browsing than my BlackBerry at the time. Though I vastly preferred all messaging on my BlackBerry.
- brailsafe 1y agoI think that's a fair point, but I definitely wasn't speaking from the perspective of even the first iPhone version, more from point where the general population had access to them, and my impression was that they enjoyed the novelties that seemed heavily marketed at the time, Shazam being a very relatable problem for almost everyone.