The Apple iPhone turns 16 today!
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- 09 Jan 2023
AnonD-1058210, 09 Jan 2023🥱😒GSMArena moment
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- 09 Jan 2023
Start of a new era.
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- 09 Jan 2023
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- 09 Jan 2023
Daemon Targaryen, 09 Jan 2023Reminiscing (Circa 2007-2011) I was 26 when iPhone was fir... moreYour anecdote is very interesting and very nostalgic too! as a user of the now extinct Symbian, at that time I was a total fanboy of Nokia and then of android when I gave the saint in 2011... But over time I was recognizing that without this launch 16 years ago we would have nothing of what is known in mobile telephony! That's why I congratulate Mr. Jobs for having that vision for the future that he had back then! As for the best times of the telephones for me, it goes from the beginning of the 2000s, until 2017 from there, everything is more of the same
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- 09 Jan 2023
The first iPhone... a pinnacle. The best presentation of a product, ever.
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- 09 Jan 2023
Come on how many iphone haters come out in this post! As for the iPhone, congratulations to the one who changed the course of mobile technology...
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- 09 Jan 2023
Reminiscing (Circa 2007-2011)
I was 26 when iPhone was first announced on January 9, 2007. When I first saw that thing from PhoneScoop positioned in landscape showing a Beck and Macy Gray album in CoverFlow, it blew my mind.
I used to own a PSP phat and downloaded the iPhone commercials for it and would loop it over and over. I would frequent Howard Forums and most people voted Nokia N95 over the iPhone.
The iPhone 4 was really the one that took my breath away. I remember holding it for the first time and thinking it's the most beautiful device I've ever held while heading to an Apple Store grand opening in Cerritos.
When the iPhone 4 was leaked by Gizmodo around April 2010, people thought it was ugly and were hoping it was fake. When it was officially announced was when almost everyone was calling it beautiful. The irony. Until it became official and introduced by Steve Jobs (his final iPhone keynote) is when people stopped calling it ugly.
Since the 4 on June 24, 2010 when I got my pre-ordered 4 from Best Buy in Cerritos, I never got that same "magical" feeling after getting a new iPhone. I can still remember I was #11 in Best Buy for pre-orders..
I can remember going to watch The Karate Kid (2010) after getting my Apple bumper from Apple Store that was packed with people. Got a free shirt too. Was that really already 12.5 years ago? I remember going to Disneyland like a month later and everyone was taking photos with an iPhone.
Heck, I can remember getting an iPhone 2G on Oct 5, 2011 for only $90 at this nice Pizza Hut in Laguna Niguel. I saw 50/50 (2011) at Irvine Spectrum that's about cancer. Was raining. I go home and use my iPhone 2G to check GSMArena and there it states that Steve Jobs died. No wonder it was gloomy in SoCal that day.
Nowadays, nobody camps out for iPhones anymore. The fun is gone and we'll never get it back. It's the same with camping out to get a PlayStation. Nobody does that anymore. When you walk into an Apple Store on a launch day circa 2007-2012, Genius employees will clap for you walking in or out. You felt special. Had free Chick-fil-A and water if you lined up outside.
It will never really be the same again. I'm aware phones are much, much better now. But the feelings or experiences for them is not the same. Go watch that iPhone 5 launch ad and you'll know what I mean. That high you get from getting a new iPhone on launch about a decade ago will never be the same...
We kinda got it again by X in 2017 celebrating 10 years of iPhone but we never really got it since. The last few iPhones were formalities. Check them out, buy them, review them, but the luster has emptied. Hence, why I'm going to wait every 10 years to buy only the anniversary iPhones. There's no point to upgrade as often as these techtubers. We're now getting less than 10% performance gains.
I love my current phones now but I can say circa 2007-2014 was when I felt phones were still fresh and exciting. We saw the massive progression like going from 4th gen in video games into the 5th gen. From 2010-2013, it was already pretty significant. We got quad cores, 1080p, 4x more RAM with Android. We still had headphone jack, removable batteries from the Koreans, and microSD slot. We still had earphones and charger in the box.
What's my favorite single year for phones? That's tough. I don't really have one. But standouts were 2004, 2008, 2011, 2013, 2016, 2017, and even 2021 when I got my Flip 3 and Razr 5G. All the 2016 phones I got happened in 2017. My least favorite were 2020 and 2015. I just generally hated 2020 as a year and 2015 had Snapdragon 810. I also didn't care for 2006. I think 2007 is when my interest for phones got re-ignited thanks to the first iPhone.