Steve Jobs Never Wanted Us to Use Our iPhones Like This (2019)
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HN comment orderI'm a bit of a Steve Jobs ultrafan, and I've seen the presentation on iPhone maybe a 100 times. Predictably the article takes quotes out of contexts, makes unwarranted assumptions and is overall, worthless. I don't call NYTimes work worthless easily, I kind of have some reverence for them. But that truly was "random blog post" level of writing, pushing the writer's own words in Steve Jobs' mouth. Shame. Steve Jobs DID call it a "revolutionary internet communicator" like at…
> The [2007 iPhone launch] presentation confirms that Mr. Jobs envisioned a simpler and more constrained iPhone experience than the one we actually have over a decade later. For example, he doesn’t focus much on apps. Well, this is because there were no apps. It's was a brand new platform! > Mr. Jobs seemed to understand the iPhone as something that would help us with a small number of activities — listening to music, placing calls, generating directions. He didn’t…
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| Date | Title as submitted | By | Points | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019-01-25 | Steve Jobs Never Wanted Us to Use Our iPhones Like ThisFirst breakout | evo_9 | 64 | 57 |
| 2020-10-15 | Steve Jobs Never Wanted Us to Use Our iPhones Like This | astdb | 14 | 0 |
| 2021-05-09 | Steve Jobs Never Wanted Us to Use Our iPhones Like This (2019)Best thread · Latest 20+ point return | nojito | 101 | 101 |