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I don’t think we would have had big iPhones. Think they would be about the size of the X as a max. Jobs was very keen on the design of being able to navigate with one finger and reach all of the screen while the phone is held in your hand. If that makes any sense…?
I can recall people arguing about the iPhone’s screen size being too small around the time Steve Jobs died, so I think the size increase has more to do with market demand rather than anything else.
Yeah. There’s the reason the PM model of a lineup is extremely well sold
Agree , in the first iPhone release show he hammered that point home many times
Don’t think it would’ve changed much from what it is now TBH… iPad pro with the stylus is a different story…
We probably wouldn’t have as much versions, colors as we have today. Just a single model for each version, maybe 1 or 2 colors.
The iPhone would still be 3.5”
unqualified BS
iPhone Aesthetics would be slightly different. No notch and I would guess the camera wouldn’t protrude so the phone can lie completely flat on a table
lol so no front facing camera and no changes to quality of the cameras.
As if.
If anything. The type of design trends we saw (and largely hated) under Johnny Ive would have continued for longer under Steve.
Phones would likely be thinner and smaller.
He could have it, but different. My best guess is the camera would be more centered on the back, so the iPhone wouldn’t be uneven.
Way to take that out of context.
lol so no front facing camera and no changes to quality of the cameras.
That’s really what you took from that statement?
Where does the front facing camera go on an iPhone with no notch and an edge to edge display then?
Underneath the display.
Inb4: “but but no one has executed it well yet”
Yeah, that’s why Apple and Steve Jobs were different. No one had executed touchscreen smartphones well before either.
Yeah. Whatever Apple and Steve want to achieve they just can. Don’t worry about physics and the fact that no one has even presented a demo for perfectly transparent high resolution display.
No one has done it well yet because it literally isn’t possible. You have to significantly compromise the display quality and the camera quality. It’s just not worth it.
Video calling on a phone was impossible too, then smartphones came along.
Do you really think there won’t be any more inventions or innovations that’ll make previously impossible things possible?
I literally had a phone that did video calls before the first iphone was announced iPhone.
Stop bringing up irrelevant examples of innovation.
It might be possible without the kinds of compromises we see now, one day, but not at the moment.
No one even has a million dollar proof of concept example.
Nope and nope
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.
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 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 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.
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)
Definitely lots of stainless steel…
No pro/base models, not a bunch of colors. Silver or space gray and probably 2 storage options. No max or mini either
Yeah the iMac g3 was just beige Steve hated colors you’re right lmao
Steve prolly wouldnt let tim cook
LET TIM COOK!
Tim, we have to cook.
no large screen iphone, SJ liked small phones
the app store wouldn’t be as big as it is now because he was a control freak
the OS would still be simple because he was about having computers be as simple to use as the old 90’s appliances because it was still early in computing
IOS wouldn’t not be as integrated and have so many common features with other products
back in the SJ days apple was organized around products and the product teams all wrote their own software from a common code base they branched. Now apple is organized with software being separate from products and this is why we have texting on macbooks, etc
Smaller I reckon
No unsymmetrical camera bump.
I personally don’t think the many personalizations would have been added like the widgets and automations. It would have been a less buggy streamlined collection of preset automations for example. Those types of diy setups felt like a change in direction
iPhone would not have been included in PRISM ( https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/PRISM ) before Jobs’ body reached room temperature – he told the spooks to f*ck off while everybody else fell into line, including Zuckerberg.
I suspect they Shah of Iran’d him for it.
this thread is just dorks ascribing their own personal opinions and desires to a dead man