7 ways the iPhone changed our lives

Well the iPhone in 2007 by Apple certainly accelerated, exponentially, the direction phones and smartphones at the time were going. The App Store was certainly unique.


Seven ways the iPhone has changed our lives | News.com.au

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As I wrote above, things were going in that direction but the iphone especially the 3G one accelerated the direction immediately. I remember how impressed I was with maps and pinch and zoom. And a real email program and a full browser, so much better than anything at the time.

And another point mentioned was the innovation of the fan boy


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Yes, I did, however, like dmapr I had two devices, a Palm Pilot, at least two versions of that and a phone. I don't miss the stylus on that. So between the Palm and the 6131, I managed, but it was painful, really painful with email and web browsing. Even had a keyboard for the palm.

Even the Blackberry, which I looked at extensively, had a nice browser, but it was far inferior to full browser that the iPhone was offering.

I disagree about the reception.

Living in the city, and in the non 3G rural country, my iPhone's reception was pretty good. In fact, as good as the 6131. And the audio on the iPhone much better than the 6131, which had a stupidly placed microphone in the mid section of that flip. Remember that?

But anyways, I think the details are not what the article is about, as much as the concept, however flawed in specific details, was a winner...and surprisingly it took a long time for other competitors to realize that after the iPhone 2007 launch...remember Steve Ballmer of Microsoft saying that it was a 'loser' phone and especially at that price point. Famous last words. LTE or non LTE really didn't manner, when you had a complete phone like the iPhone, and wifi. If I remember right, wifi on my 2008 iPhone 3G was pretty novel, at least for a non BB phone. Certainly didn't have it on the Palm Pilot.

It really was the whole package, not the bits and pieces. It was just very well designed from an engineer's point of view. Even not having 'cut and paste' in the earlier versions was not upsetting, because we 'fanboys' just knew it would come...after all, Apple was the first to implement on the mass market, cut and paste to the computer world.

I'm glad that you went through all the phones before picking up the iPhone 5, and that you are still happy with it.

Anyhow, the Fanboy comment was meant to be a sarcastic joke.

 

HaHa...before the Sharp and the Palm, there was the original Macintosh OS (or even Lisa) vs the DOS Microsoft, and then Windows.

Now we are talking fanboy battles going back 35 years??? Sort of like the 30 years war... and I do think Fanboy started in the Mac vs PC world...although the concept goes back to biblical times..

Back on topic, I think the best point in the article is with 'solving arguments' about facts...just look it up on your phones now and be done with it. Or remember who was the 'what's his name' actor in a movie.

That is the best!

 

Ah, but in the office, everyone had a computer or two, with a mixture of Macs and PC. Trust me there was plenty of discussions, and as forums evolved it continued on.

Anyways, those are times in the past.

 

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I do agree with the important parts of the list:

1. Internet...now available anywhere in a full browser like we use to only have at home.

2. App Store: changed how we do software, and almost everything mobile.

3. Changed more than one industry: MP3 players, radios, music, movies from the mobile web, GPS, compass...all these devices are changed, some almost gone as independent devices

4. Changed how we use computers....basically the finger interface. Followed by the iPad, tablet devices.

5. The phone as a fashion statement and as common as a wrist watch use to be. In fact, even a wallet.

and my own:

Phone forums are almost computer forums since the merger of phones, tablets and computers is to tight nowadays, even in the OS's