Apple iphones are overpriced aluminum.
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Apple obviously revolutionised touch-screen phones. They might not have been the first, but they were the best for a few years. Some of you guys might be too young to have had hands-on experiences, but 8-10 years ago all other touch screens that I tried (Samsung, LG, Nokia) were very poor in terms of accuracy and sensitivity. My Dad used to have a non-flagship Samsung and I literally had to press my finger on the screen in order for it to register the touch.
@Tjeff148 Some off-topic comments might have been (and might continue to be) removed.The iPhone wasn’t really revolutionary, really the only thing that set the iPhone appart from other Pocket PCs was that you didn’t need a stylus. Pocket PCs before the iPhone could do pretty much everything the original iPhone could do, worked as a phone with cellular connection, play music, browse the internet. They could even install programs and games, something the iPhone 2G with iOS 1 couldn’t do.
Very good points, Kalle! The first iPhone had some funny limitations. It didn’t even have copy and paste. And you couldn’t set a background image! It definitely wasn’t revolutionary in that regard.
But it did revolutionise the market — in that touch screen phones were not really in demand before it. They made the multi-touch technology mainstream, and everyone wanted to copy it because it really worked beautifully.
I need to check, but were there any devices with multi-touch screens available to consumers before 2007?
Is this the biggest topic on the site @Adriana?
also your point about touch screens being garbage before the iPhone is absolutely true, but it’s because that wasn’t the main interface intended for the device, they were supposed to use little keyboards and stuff like that, the touchscreen was just supposed to be a nice little feature, until apple came along and made the iPhone and revolutionized the market, and well, I’m sure you know how the story goes.
@willbilly, yes it is! We need Apple controversies to get so many posts… and YT views.
The iPhone was the first mainstream device with a touch screen that allowed multi-finger gestures, like pinch to zoom, as far as I know. Which is why you didn’t really need a stylus in order to use it (“Who wants a stylus?”).
I did some research about touch screens before 2007.
There were Multi Touch screens before the iPhone, and there were handheld devices that didn’t have a keyboard where the screen was the primary input, although they usually used a stylus(not all, but most). Typing with a stylus is pretty slow though.
As far as I know the first real multi touch screen is from 1984, which could respond to multiple finger inputs. And in 1985 the pinch-to-zoom gesture was demonstrated.
There was the Lemur Input Device which was relesed in 2005 and had 10 finger multi-touch. It was the first commercial product to feature a proprietary transparent multi-touch screen. As far as I know, it worked just as good as the iPhone screen, you didn’t have to press hard on it to work or anything.
The iPhone touch screen was from a company called FingerWorks purchased by Apple in 2005.
Iphones are overpriced but for a reason.
Its a lot of money to make products like that and if they sell it for cheap then they won’t make any profit!
@Kalle69, super interesting stuff, thanks for posting! I had no idea about the Lemur Input Device, it looks like it was pretty well-known, and popular with major music artists. The Lemur iPad app that replaced the original device is still being sold. Ironic that it’s just an iPad app now.
Apple was very inspired to invest their funds into multi-touch technology. It probably wouldn’t have taken long for someone else to make a similar phone if it hadn’t been them. But when FingerWorks were acquired by Apple, they stopped working with other companies, and many improvements to the multi-touch technologies became Apple patents. Probably why the competition was a bit slow to catch up. (The patents are another very interesting topic in themselves).
@Australia I know you don’t like apple but you got a point. How did apple become a trillion dollar company? Apple tax.
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they started out good but then the COOK incident happened where they hired Tim Cook.
Tim Cook raised the price a ton, but at least when you buy a thousand dollar product from apple, it actually feels like a thousand dollar product
at least when you buy a thousand dollar product from apple, it actually feels like what you had before but bigger and with less holes.
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