The iPhone came at the right time!
That is correct, there was a pre-established market that refused to advance (check the Sony Ericsson smartphones before the iPhone), same with the iPod. Once they got a product with market breaking features, it became a global phenomenon. I wonder what current markets are held down due to lack of imagination or greed.
wonder what current markets are held down due to lack of imagination or greed.
I would say evs and renewables.
That is what Tesla did but quality didn’t hold up.
Evs need better build quality so badly!
Man, I’d settle for something that doesn’t cost an arm and a leg for a shit box with terrible range half the year when it goes under freezing temps…
EVERYONE.
I think it’s really interesting to compare old iPhone ads with current smartphone ads.
iPhone in 2008: You can check the weather, get directions, take photos.
Phone in 2024: If you point your phone at a sign, it’ll google stuff about what it sees on the sign. Also, your iPhone will literally leave your hand and fly its way to the Verizon store to replace itself with an iPhone 16 because that’s all we got.
Or, yea, with our magical AI you we help you lie to your loved ones, jeij!
I mean, they reduced battery life from 5 days to 1 and told everyone to suck it up, so there’s that’s.
For what you got on exchange at the time it was worth it, imo. Battery technology is still holding technology back.
why do we need batteries to last more than a day? plug in at night, job done. Any more capacity is just a waste of precious battery materials and extra bulk to carry around for no reason.
If you’re a special case who for some reason has to go multiple days away from a charger, you have portable battery banks now.
You are looking at it the wrong way.
Any more capacity is just a waste of precious battery materials and extra bulk to carry around for no reason.
It’s not about using more, it’s about getting more battery life from less resources and at the same size. Of course, also safely.
…because modern smartphones to a shit ton more than pre-2007. if you want your phone to do more, as most people do, yeah, they are going to use more engery. it’s hardly a con pulled on us.
modern smartphones are extremely efficient for what they do, to the point that Apple decided to redo their computer architecture based on their phones. their baseline laptops don’t even need fans they are so energy and heat efficient.
I’d say the opposite - what you got at the time was not worth it. The first iPhone didn’t even do email if I remember correctly.
We might say it’s worth now, but even that bus because of the ecosystem and other technologies improving around it .
Or put another way, they look your 15in mobile computer with a few hours of battery life, made it small enough to fit in your pocket, and extended battery life for an entire day.
I’m sure they’ll still continue to mimic other companies in the best way possible.
isn’t it enough that so many people use iPhones geez. company has so much money.
You either increase the profits or you go down the capitalism slide.
