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The technical details of the presentation are interesting, but less relevant than how well the device worked at launch. It worked. The iPhone was a success not
by Aloha 13y ago
The technical details of the presentation are interesting, but less relevant than how well the device worked at launch. It worked. The iPhone was a success not because it was the first, but because it was the first really usable device, it put everything that came before it to shame.
- jkubicek 13y agoAnd remember, the iPhone was the first phone with visual voicemail. It boggles the mind that we all had to deal with horrible audio menus for decades before Apple came along and strong-armed Cingular into fixing voicemail.
- perishabledave 13y agoAmazing how backwards the industry is to have to be strong-armed into improving something. Visual voicemail is under appreciated.
- sliverstorm 13y agoOf course it hardly matters now. Nobody leaves me voicemail or listens to the voicemail I leave anymore.
- RyJones 13y agoAudio voicemail increased ARPU and minutes/month/user, thus the resistance dropping it. Now that everyone is on flat-rate plans, burning minutes for voicemail access is unlikely to ever cost you money. Didn't use to be the case.
- Greenisus 13y agoI'm not sure of this, but if I recall, voicemail minutes were free for me back then on Cingular.
- zmmmmm 13y ago> The iPhone was a success not because it was the first, but because it was the first really usable device This is both true and a horrible rewriting of history. People loved their Blackberries. The term Crackberry was invented before the iPhone was even a rumor. And don't tell me it wasn't mainstream, it had taken over most of the business and government market. It was confined to those markets, but within those huge markets it was utterly mainstream. But even before that other people loved Palm devices. The capacitive touch screen was a clear advance - but don't tell me there was no "usable" device prior to that.
- breakupapp 13y agoI think people were addicted to being connected, not to the device.
- snowwrestler 13y agoYes. I had a work-issued Blackberry and while the constant connectivity was great, it was really only usable for email, and device itself sucked.
- philwelch 13y agoSuits loved Blackberrys. Not normal people.
- ewoodrich 13y agoI could type faster on my Blackberry Curve (a consumer targeted device) than my current Galaxy Nexus or any iPhone/iTouch touchscreen (plus I could literally type a full message and send by touch-typing, without any doubt as to what I was actually doing without looking at the screen). I admit I prefer the button-less form factor in many respects, but boy do I miss that well-designed tactile keyboard.
- parasubvert 13y agoI had a BB for about 8 years (1999-2007) before moving to touchcreens with the iPhone, and I can't actually go back to a physical keyboard - it's too slow! I can type way faster on the touch screen now. Though you do need to pay attention to your auto-correct.
- jevinskie 13y agoWorked great in some ways and terribly in others. Remember no MMS? No copy-paste?
- gmac 13y agoI pretty much never sent an MMS before or since, and it had email which was better and cheaper. No copy/paste was more annoying, but a fair comparison is with other phones of the era, and my previous phone (some top-end but dumb Sony Ericsson) didn't either.
- makomk 13y agoIf you're using a modern iPhone and have ever sent a text to more than one recipient, I think you've probably sent an MMS at some point.
- richardwhiuk 13y agoGroup SMS != MMS.