Apple users bash new iPhone 15: ‘Innovation died with Steve Jobs’::Smart phone fans are griping about Apple’s new devices since the arguably anti-climactic announcement of the forthcoming iPhone 15 and iPhone 15 Plus on Tuesday.

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    1 year ago

    So what you’re saying is that it was an evolution of stuff already on the market. I mean the iPhone didn’t even have apps when it came out

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      1 year ago

      Apple coined the term App with the introduction of the App Store. They weren’t called that before the iPhone. That’s how influential the iPhone and its ecosystem were.

      I can’t stand Apple’s ecosystem, but pretending like it wasn’t a major shift is just weird.

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        1 year ago

        They were called applications or programs… the big innovation was the walled garden store only from which you can install programs. Before that you went to the software developer 's website and downloaded the package

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      1 year ago

      It was absolutely a revolution.

      The relevant definition of revolution: “a dramatic and wide-reaching change in conditions, attitudes, or operation.”

      It didn’t matter if the technology already existed, hardly anyone was using it. Capacitive touchscreens existed, but there was no dramatic change, they were just used in the same way as resistive touchscreens. It was a different way of building a touchscreen, but very much an evolutionary change.

      The iPhone was a revolution because it caused a dramatic and almost overnight change in the industry. What techies usually fail to see it that technology doesn’t matter. What matters is how it is used and what it allows people to do.