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@Rene Ritchie Yes, René. Thank you! I‘ll watch it! And yes, there is one more thing… please make a video to the Scott Forstall ”drop off“… I‘ve read a bit about it and know that he felt like becoming the the new Steve Jobs, but could not elaborate the pace to build the needed sympathy around him. Is that a thing to cover in a further video, maybe?
These are the types of videos where you shine the most, Rene. I knew most of this and still thoroughly, thoroughly enjoyed it. Happy holidays and merry Christmas!
Wow, I never knew that Verizon was offered the iPhone first. Just imagine how they felt in the 2-3 years when the iPhone market was locked down by AT&T!
Great Video Rene, really fascinating story, would love to have more of this type of stuff. It really shows how many decisions and a bit of luck goes into a great product
I really enjoy it Rene when you deep dive into a subject of Apple History. I remember so well and had my iPhone by Nov. 2007 the next week I showed it off at my Breakfast group, the following week 4 of the other 10 guys had iPhones. All of us are still big tech geeks, great video and thanks.
The Tungsten T was so friggen cool back in its day. The slide-out Graffiti area was rad, and I remember how much faster it was at running all my apps compared to the m505 I had before it. Not to mention how much faster Bluetooth file transfers were compared to Beam, in addition to not having to point the devices at each other! I also remember the Zire 71 with its slide-out camera and RealPlayer built in for playing music tracks. And playing the SMS Sonic 1 on its stubby “joystick”. And who can forget the venerable Kinoma Player? Or the PopCap games? Gosh… Palm really was something special back in those days.
@@ReneRitchie the Palm Pre Plus was uber amazing even when IPhone was skyrocketing in popularity. WebOS was great for the time and had great multitasking which most other phones at the time could not do… or do well.
Great info- especially liked the insight as to why some features, like the ability to send pics via SMS, were absent from such an evolutionary tech product.
A physical home button being an anchor point to less tech savvy customers is still important to this day. I work for Apple with our retail partners. The comment I hear most from customers not wanting to upgrade a very old phone is “I don’t want to loose the home button.” The 2nd generation SE having not just the physical home button, but the exact shape and feel of the 6,7,&8 makes it so much easier for someone to transition to a new phone. But it’s the home button that matters most.
They didn't make it though. They bought it from Andy Rubin. Whom from what I heard presented it to Steve Jobs but they were already well advanced with iOS. Android was initially supposed to be camera software also from memory. But Eric Schmidt has a lot to answer for I believe.
I don't know if it's true , but I heard/read somewhere that Jobs had multiple iPhones behind that little podium on stage because the phone was so buggy that he didn't trust it not to fail during the presentation. He supposedly had each phone running a different app and grabbed each in turn so as not to have to risk a failure when switching apps. Is that an accurate historical accounting?
BEST VIDEO EVER. thank you. I reminisced soo much and brought so many amazing memories of me sitting as a 15 year old with my original iPhone. Those were great times! Thank you for creating this.
iOS would likely not have any of the more nerd-friendly features it does now. Scott passed on AirDrop twice. Only got approved when Craig took over. How much do you really wish they were still there?
I was Working in retail from 1991 to 2010 My first phone was Motorola from 1991 to 2010 I hade use over 50 different model and brand but 2007 everything changed Steve Jobs I will never forget you!
Apple guru René Ritchie, your right my iPhone can be a google phone… lol just got a iPhone 13 pro Max from a pixel 6 pro! I love the experience so far. Thanks you
imagine a world without iPhone... I mean, good/bad... All of it. I really do believe information technology has made the world a better place because it certainly made me better.
Thank you for telling an up to date story of the iPhone. That’s one of the reasons I downgraded to the iPhone SE from my iPhone 12 mini. FOR THAT HOMEBUTTON!!!!You told the story that had to be told. You are the best . I wanted the home button as that identifies with the original iPhone heritage. Merry Christmas ReneYou are the best sir.
Thanks for content like this Rene! When I read rumors of an upcoming smartphone by Apple I was so ready to throw away my Samsung BlackJack running Windows Mobile. LOL
So “photorealistic” was truly a love of Steve’s in terms of a software look, & then Jony in his very first attempt at software gave us stick-figure candy pieces as icons. I thought Apple was generally about keeping Steve’s “DNA” in their decisions: why are they going against it in the entire inside look of their products, especially since out of the 3 guys (Jobs, Forstall, and Jony), Ive was the only one who chose to leave?
As someone who had the original iPhone on day one. I can tell you that I didn’t give a crap about not being able to copy paste or send pictures. I had the coolest phone on the market and it didn’t matter.
Just signed up for Curiosity Stream and Nebula. Where do I find the vid where you and other content creators are talking about impact of original iPhone?
$499 was expensive at the time. Over priced. If you remember, Steve even gave a discount in the end. I remember my friends were blown away by how expensive it was. Then again, first adopters will alway pay the piper.
If only apple could innovate once more , don’t get me wrong I use apple I have every apple Device but when you look at what Samsung is doing with its fold lineup it’s just amazing and my 13 pro max is just so boring the phone is perfect and no issues but just boring . If I didn’t own so much apple product I would’ve switch to Samsung along time ago and I also don’t like android so yup that is that , maybe one day apple will innovate again
They’re possibly waiting for foldable technology to mature over time. The only thing holding me back from getting a Z Fold 3 or Z Flip 3 is Samsung’s use of flexible glass that can lead to stress fractures as you fold and unfold over and over. Then again I’m curious as to how this’ll work with Apple’s ecosystem since a foldable might cannibalize iPad sales a bit, specially if they make a foldable to target a “tablet sized display with an optional phone sized display” type of device, same for phone sales.
Great vid, but you might want to rename it "little known history" as opposed to "Untold". It's been told. Anybody that watched the recent-ish Scott Forstall interview will have heard this history along with lots more.
Fun Fact: The first version of autocorrect was created by the same person who ran the Internet Explorer team at Micorosft. The world makes way more sense when you know that, right?
It’s annoying how they threw away Forstall essentially for late-period Jony, who started making decisions they’ve since gone back on (except for the awful-looking and incredibly dated software).
You could work on your intonation. Regular sentences usually end with lower intonation. Your voice never gets lower at the end of the sentence. Sounds really robot like. Also I could never catch where is a comma, a dot, or next line in the text you read. Really strange full stops mid sentence where there is no dot, comma or anything.
