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Steve Jobs Never Wanted Us to Use Our iPhones Like This (2019)

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Resurfaced independently across 3 calendar years, with breakout response in 2 of them.

submissions
3
submitters
3
observed span
2019–2021
peak thread · 101 comments
101 pts
latest 20+ return · 2021-05-09
101 pts

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2007–2026

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I'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…

slver·101-point thread·

> 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…

aylmao·64-point thread·

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Breakout years
2

100+ points or 50+ comments

Total points
179

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Every submission

DateTitle as submittedByPointsComments
2019-01-25Steve Jobs Never Wanted Us to Use Our iPhones Like ThisFirst breakoutevo_96457
2020-10-15Steve Jobs Never Wanted Us to Use Our iPhones Like Thisastdb140
2021-05-09Steve Jobs Never Wanted Us to Use Our iPhones Like This (2019)Best thread · Latest 20+ point returnnojito101101