iPhone wouldn’t have stayed small, other phones got bugger apple would have had to follow.
Let’s remember Steve Jobs started a revolutionary, moaning that in Xerox the advertising guys ran the company not the engineers. Pretty soon once he became a megalomaniac and only cared about money, he let the marketing men run the company.
In the early 90s the apple slogan was “It does more, It costs less. It’s that simple” by 2000 apple was a premium brand that does nothing more than any of it’s competitors and actually costs more, so a complete turn around why because Steve Jobs was the man obsessed with money in silicon valley not Bill Gates (he’s doing a good job of giving all his money away as well as getting others to do so)
I only care to use the “small” iPhones that come out now. I don’t want to be forced to use two hands to operate the device. I want my thumb to be able to reach the other side of the screen. The size of the smallest makes it a stretch but at least I can still operate iOS with one hand most of the time.
I don’t think anything would change about Max, I can reach the entire screen with one thumb on mine, there is no one size fits all. It’s up to you to buy what fits you.
Came here for the no big phones thing. Last iPhone that I owned was an iPhone 4s, current iPhone is a 12 mini. I absolutely hate the idea of a phone you can’t use with just one hand. I don’t know a ton else about Steve Jobs, but that one really resonates to me as a big deal that was just overlooked.
I loved Steve Jobs. I could see a situation where Apple would miss the deadline for a new iOS update, and Steve would go out on stage and tell everyone that Apple is doing it the right way. And then point out how everyone else is doing it wrong. Like when he defended iOS not being able to have multiple apps open at once. He said something along the lines of “we aren’t going to put out mediocre updates like everyone else. Or how phones kept getting bigger, and he would say the iPhone is the perfect size and everyone else was messed up. He was such a great salesman and could spin any bad press around and make it look like Apple planned it all this way. RIP Steve!
I think we wouldn’t have seen such rushed and buggy iOS releases.
Max size phones would be interesting as one of the big design philosophies was being able to reach the whole screen with one hand.
Yeah but you’d have to evolve because that’s an outdated usability concept
iPhone wouldn’t have stayed small, other phones got bugger apple would have had to follow. Let’s remember Steve Jobs started a revolutionary, moaning that in Xerox the advertising guys ran the company not the engineers. Pretty soon once he became a megalomaniac and only cared about money, he let the marketing men run the company. In the early 90s the apple slogan was “It does more, It costs less. It’s that simple” by 2000 apple was a premium brand that does nothing more than any of it’s competitors and actually costs more, so a complete turn around why because Steve Jobs was the man obsessed with money in silicon valley not Bill Gates (he’s doing a good job of giving all his money away as well as getting others to do so)
I only care to use the “small” iPhones that come out now. I don’t want to be forced to use two hands to operate the device. I want my thumb to be able to reach the other side of the screen. The size of the smallest makes it a stretch but at least I can still operate iOS with one hand most of the time.
I don’t think anything would change about Max, I can reach the entire screen with one thumb on mine, there is no one size fits all. It’s up to you to buy what fits you.
Came here for the no big phones thing. Last iPhone that I owned was an iPhone 4s, current iPhone is a 12 mini. I absolutely hate the idea of a phone you can’t use with just one hand. I don’t know a ton else about Steve Jobs, but that one really resonates to me as a big deal that was just overlooked.
I loved Steve Jobs. I could see a situation where Apple would miss the deadline for a new iOS update, and Steve would go out on stage and tell everyone that Apple is doing it the right way. And then point out how everyone else is doing it wrong. Like when he defended iOS not being able to have multiple apps open at once. He said something along the lines of “we aren’t going to put out mediocre updates like everyone else. Or how phones kept getting bigger, and he would say the iPhone is the perfect size and everyone else was messed up. He was such a great salesman and could spin any bad press around and make it look like Apple planned it all this way. RIP Steve!