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How different would things be if Steve Jobs were still alive?
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iPhone X would not have a notch and it would come with Touch-ID too
We'd have a 3.5" 8, and the 8+ would be a whopping 4".
There would also be no Apple Pencil.
Black turtleneck sales wouldn't have plummeted either.... and those movies would have done terribly.
There would also be no Apple Pencil.
Black turtleneck sales wouldn't have plummeted either.... and those movies would have done terribly.
Different. But ppl would still find things to complain about.
iPhone X would have Touch ID and no notch/reduced notch. Hell the entire current lineup would be vastly different... There would be no iPhone 8/iPhone X, there would be just one model line with a consistent design. All of Apples product lines would be consistent and simple instead of the mess they are now... IOS Would actually have more useful features like true multitasking but would likely have a very different design.
And I don't doubt the US TV industry would be vastly different. Apple would have broken into that market with an iPod like device and service. Imagine paying only for the tv channels you want though a service like the itunes store? If only that happened....
And I don't doubt the US TV industry would be vastly different. Apple would have broken into that market with an iPod like device and service. Imagine paying only for the tv channels you want though a service like the itunes store? If only that happened....
Half the people here have probably never heard of Steve Jobs. Time to move on...
I've wondered this too.... Steve came at a great time when it possible to innovate and blow people's minds.
I think if he were alive still, things would stagnate and people would lament about when he could innovate. Like musicians: they have a time when they are awesome, and then opinions and tastes change, and the musician isn't awesome anymore.
It's probably good Steve isn't at the helm anymore, so that he could go out with a bang and be remembered forever as a great innovator.
I think if he were alive still, things would stagnate and people would lament about when he could innovate. Like musicians: they have a time when they are awesome, and then opinions and tastes change, and the musician isn't awesome anymore.
It's probably good Steve isn't at the helm anymore, so that he could go out with a bang and be remembered forever as a great innovator.
But more on point: the 8 would have happened sooner.
iOS would be less of a bloated glitch fest. He would have scared the engineers into making damn sure they didn't put out crap.
iOS would be less of a bloated glitch fest. He would have scared the engineers into making damn sure they didn't put out crap.
There would be no 5.5" iPhone?
Right? RIGHT?
Disclaimer: This reply is intended as a humorous reply. Thank you.
Right? RIGHT?
Disclaimer: This reply is intended as a humorous reply. Thank you.
ITT: Steve Jobs was a perfect human being and Apple could have made no mistakes or poor decisions under Jobs.
We wouldn’t have to listen to Tim’s politics.
Well Apple has 2-3 keynotes per year, you can could count on at least 1-2 "one more things" per year. Since Steve died about six years ago, that means we should have 6-12 "one more things", minus one for iPhone X, so that makes 5-11. Imaging 5-11 new Apple products!!
- Apple Car
- Apple Motorcycle
- Apple Bicycle
- Apple TV that's actually a TV
- Apple Airplane
... and up to 6 more new things. It would have been amazing.
- Apple Car
- Apple Motorcycle
- Apple Bicycle
- Apple TV that's actually a TV
- Apple Airplane
... and up to 6 more new things. It would have been amazing.
Steve Jobs is one of my idols but I'm not going to glorify him by saying Apple would be much better off with him around, because truthfully we can't really predict how he would behave in the marketplace post 2011.
But I'll say one thing, he wouldn't have let the iPhone 6 design go on for 4 generations.
But I'll say one thing, he wouldn't have let the iPhone 6 design go on for 4 generations.
Never said he was a perfect human being that made no bad or wrong decisions.... All I am saying is that Apple had a direction under Steve Jobs and devices were released a bit more finalized and not in prototype form like the iPhone X... No new breakthrough devices have come from Apple that Steve Jobs was not a part of. Apple as it exists today has no direction and no vision for the future. They are currently only concerned with tweaking their products and maximizing their profits.
I’d like to think a more engaging-looking and intuitive ios would still be around vs. what we have. And the ios podcast app would never have surfaced.
Edit: I was referring to the iOS 11 podcast app, the worst piece of trash app to come out of Apple since iTunes 12.
Edit: I was referring to the iOS 11 podcast app, the worst piece of trash app to come out of Apple since iTunes 12.
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Now that would be a BIG PLUS...
So you’ve used the iPhone X? How do you now it’s “in prototype” form? Pretty sure everyone who’s been blessed to have hands on experience with it, have had nothing but positive things to say.
If YOU don't... why even respond to this thread? Why not let those interested in this conversation, have it?
No joke. We'd also have something incredible, not something that more or less looks like the same phone from 2007.
Yep! The ROKR was a great product released under Steve’s direction. So was the iPod Hi-Fi, PowerMac G4 Cube, OS X 10.0, Macintosh TV, the LISA, and the Apple III. All amazing and highly successful and super polished products (these were all highly unpolished and/or severely buggy and lacking, in case you didn’t get the sarcasm)
Haha yeah, the Apple Watch didn’t change the wearable space at all! No market influence! Sure, Apple became the #1 watch manufacturer, everyone rushed to make smart watches and Fitbit, their biggest competitor, reorganized their entire product line, but yep, it wasn’t breakthrough or defining at all. Apple Pay did nothing to change the mobile payment scene. Sure it made the biggest flaw of mobile payments, the extreme insecurity, completely irrelevant and many retailers, especially in the US, saw widespread adoption of NFC capable readers, and Apple Pay using tokenization led to every major mobile payment platform to use it, including preexisting services like Google Waller to be abandoned for the new technology, but yeah, they didn’t have anything groundbreaking or new.
Of course, unlike Steve Jobs who approved the iPhone, iPhone 3G, and iPhone 3GS which were all groundbreaking and entirely new in every way with no reused hardware or design elements, and an iPod family introduced or updated every year, sometimes with the most minimal improvements. Steve cared most about his company producing high quality experiences, which is why OS X and iOS versions would strip advertised features and functionality that had been proved by modern and jailbreakera to function just fine with minimal/no system impact, forcing you to upgrade. Very unlike Apple today, which supports its hardware much longer than it did in the past while retaining just about every non-hardware based feature.
You’re totally right. Bring back Steve!
>#end circleJerk