Partial multitasking and folders. Wow, so ground breaking.
Don't forget wallpapers. That's a big one, LOL!
Steve Jobs did a really good job at displaying how functional the wallpapers would be for the phone. I'm so impressed, I think i'm going to fore-go anything negative i've ever said about the iPhone, give up my favorite carrier which is Sprint, decide that the EVO isn't worth it and take up at&t and get an iPhone because man, changing wallpapers is breath taking.
Well said, good sir. Being able to change wallpapers! How epic will that be?
It makes me want to cry. I can almost hardly believe it. Hold on, i'm going to go tell all my friends about it right now and see if they're as wowed as I am right now.
I had tears in my eyes from elation when I read the transcript of the event. People sitting around me in class looked at me in astonishment (assumed it was an allergic reaction) and inquired what was the matter. I replied, "Nothing is the matter, Steve Jobs proved his ability to masterfully innovate. With the iPhone OS 4.0, you will be able to change your homescreen wallpaper."
I daresay there was not a dry eye in the room. Thank you Steve Jobs! You are the true innovator of our generation!
What happened? All the other companies got together and decided to make their own PC architecture, which would be universally compatible and free from licence. They effectively made IBM irrelevant.
There are an awful lot of similarities with what Apple are doing now.
While I'd be happy to see Apple put in their place, they simply have too much advertising to suffer the same fate as IBM. Apple has tapped into the ignorance of the common person, they can throw out garbage at will with no consequences because the general public isn't going to question them.
Yey. Incredible. I've missed the green light when reading thisNow you can have different wallpaper for the lockscreen and homescreen! That's so much better than Google...
Still one of the best comments on the Engadget was:
Yey. Incredible. I've missed the green light when reading this
Still one of the best comments on the Engadget was:
Yey. Incredible. I've missed the green light when reading this
Good morning all,
I'm new to the forums and Android, just picked up an X10. was browsing through the forums and read this about os4. I have had a 3g and also a 3gs. Where I can understand your disdain towards Apple, just remember if it wasn't for them we wouldn't be anywhere near where we are now with the user friendliness and design of smart-phones as they are.
Where somethings they have been slow with, others have revolutionised the market, with millions of phones being sold. I have os4 and will be trying it out, however apple have let things slip, it will be interesting how they respond with the Iphone 4.0. At the moment I am happy to try out the X10, it seems a very powerful bit of hardware with a lovely UI, I will have a proper play and comment later on.
Actually, if Adobe struck back, they could hurt apple even worse. The most common myth in today's PC vs Mac war is Mac is better for design. While completely untrue, the myth carries alot of wieght. Well, what happens of Adobe holds back their best of the best design products from the mac platform? Designers will have to go elseware, and no-one will have any reasons to buy a mac.
I'm not trying to pick arguments or anything, but read your text in bold here. I'm sorry, but just because Apple did something as far as user friendliness, and certain design aspects, that does not say that nobody else would have done it. This goes for either at around the same time, or even a little bit after Apple did some things.
They have a huge marketing rep, and a great ability to push their product. However, their "smart phones" are far from smart compared to most of the other smart phones out there.
Granted, some of the certain aspects of the iPhone are awesome, like the capacitive touch screen coupled with the kinetic scrolling (some of the best i've ever seen in the device), you'll be hard pressed that a business user will give up the ability to do some of the stuff on his Android, WinMo, BB, or WebOS device just to have some of the "easier to use" features of an iPhone.
Just because iPhone appealed to the masses quicker, doesn't mean nobody else would have ever done it. And for the simple fact that they DID appeal to the masses quicker, doesn't mean their device is top notch in the smart phone category, and I hardly believe for a second that they "revolutionized" the market in a sense that if it weren't for them, all smart phones would suck or not have anything that we see in them today, feature or design wise.
Apple changed the face of smart phones, it was a revolutionary interface when it was first aired with coupled to excellent hardware, and yes it had limits and blocks on what it could do but it was the first "proper" smartphone for the masses rather than the techies. So I do think apple changed the way companies such as Nokia, HTC, Microsoft, Google etc etc viewed the smart phone arena and made them sit up and take note, just look at the impact of the app market as a prime example and Itunes being another one. Everyone is trying to copy these, where were these features before Apple?
I am not an Apple fanboy, what I am trying to point out is we should also be thankful for what Apple has done, and yes I do believe it has a big impact with what we now expect from a smart phone compared to the pre apple days.
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