If Jobs was still alive, the design would be very different. We wouldn't have an iPhone X. We would be at 7S/7S Plus.
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How different would things be if Steve Jobs were still alive?
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You really think someone as forward thinking as Jobs would have kept TouchID?
*snort*
I'm amazed at the number of people here who claim to know the mind of Steve Jobs.
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It’s the internet. Everyone is an expert hardware designer, everyone is an expert software designer, everyone is an expert developer that would never have a bug in their code, everyone knows what Steve would have done.
And Job's ideas and attitudes would never have evolved past the time he died.
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Ok i'll play along in the what if game. The iPhone would have never gotten bigger, no different colors. Apple Watch would not exist. I doubt we would see a iPad Pro. Defiantly no pencil or rumors of an iPhone pencil. iOS would have that horrible interface. iTunes would be even more bloated. Samsung would be lightyears ahead in the phone market.
Nobody here can speak for Steve Jobs or his mindset. Apple has always had the concept and idea of being a forward thinker and doing things differently. It's just not everybody agrees with their path point and how this company is not the same as they were once 20 years ago. Times have changed and either accept for who they are or you don't.
Let's not even begin with the MacBook Pro's lack of ports. Does anyone know if he left any of his DNA to stem cell research? Anyone?
Because Steve Jobs would have *never* dumped industry standards for what he saw the future of technology.
That's why the iMac came with serial ports and a floppy drive. That's also why the MacBook Air shipped with a CD Drive.
Apple under Steve Jobs also *never* believed in adapters. That's why the original iPhone had a flush headphone jack.
Wait a second...
There would still be lines for iPhones on launch day if Steve was here.
Scrap missing Touch ID, all the USB ports, everything. The thing I miss the most is those lines and seeing everyone so happy and celebrating.
Scrap missing Touch ID, all the USB ports, everything. The thing I miss the most is those lines and seeing everyone so happy and celebrating.
I rather enjoyed the social aspects of standing in line for a new iPhone, back when there was no preordering and you had to wait in line.
How have you been, Mac?
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Chugging right along. I'm a sophomore in college now - studying business administration. Anxiously waiting for Friday to preorder the X.
How have you been?
Ditto.
People pre-ordering it and waiting for it to arrive by mail sounds so boring. Where's the chase? Where's the challenge? No pain, no gain. It's like buying The Last Jedi tickets for a 2pm showing when the midnight showing with more eager and enthusiastic Star Wars fans is more enjoyable. I'm looking forward to the actual release day with mass hysteria than the actual iPhone X itself.
If Steve was still alive, keynotes would be so awesome to watch. We would laugh at his jokes and be under his spell called his reality distortion field. He was so charismatic on stage. Maybe that's why the iPhone 4 was the last to excite me because he announced it. The iPhone X announcement was so underwhelming.
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It would be even more difficult to delete....there would be no right click....there would be more error messages instead of correcting the OS problem.
Just for the heck of it:
No Beats
No Angela
I think the watch would have happened, albeit perhaps in a different form, as in Steve's final time here, he became interested in the health market
No Beats
No Angela
I think the watch would have happened, albeit perhaps in a different form, as in Steve's final time here, he became interested in the health market
I wager Apple would still be function over form and software wouldn't be released with as many bugs etc. You'd get beautiful designs that did what they were built to do.
I do not think he would have bailed on Macs for pros or killed the Mac OS team.
I do not think he would have bailed on Macs for pros or killed the Mac OS team.
Probably:
- More attention to detail that has been lacking
- More focus on the experience of using Apple products
- Less politics
- Insistence original content be exceptional (more like old school pixar, less carpool karaoke)
- More attention to detail that has been lacking
- More focus on the experience of using Apple products
- Less politics
- Insistence original content be exceptional (more like old school pixar, less carpool karaoke)
