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> as polished as the iPhone out of the gate I think people are forgetting how extremely unpolished the iPhone was out of the gate. No app store. Even something
by kibwen 1y ago
> as polished as the iPhone out of the gate
I think people are forgetting how extremely unpolished the iPhone was out of the gate. No app store. Even something as fundamental as copy/paste took until years later.
- Wowfunhappy 1y agoThere's a difference between polished and feature-rich. I'd actually argue the iPhone was more "polished" before they introduced the app store—their vision was pure.
- ghaff 1y agoOn the other hand, it was really the third-party apps that arguably distinguished the iPhone from the manufacturer-centric phones previously.
- borski 1y agoYou’re talking about features. It didn’t have that many, sure. But the features it did have were extremely well polished. Part of the reason it took them forever to add copy/paste is because Android phones had 12 different ways to do it and it was unintuitive as a result. I’m not suggesting Apple’s solution is better; but it’s definitely intentional and thought-through. At the time, Apple was one of the very few companies with really intentional design. Now many companies have adopted that philosophy.