What?? Gorilla glass was developed in the SIXTIES and up until 2005 nobody had been able to dream up a use for it??! Unreal!!

Back around 2005, I used to carry around a Motorola Razr phone, an iPod, a Nintendo DS, and a small Canon camera, and usually a book of whatever I was reading on the train. I thought “someday someone is going to merge all these into one device”. Little did I realise that less than 2 years later it would be released.

@trader2137

10 ай бұрын

i dont get you, i used Sony ericsson k750i and it had all these functionalities back then...

@trevormoffat4054

10 ай бұрын

@@trader2137 Lucky you. I just had all these separate devices.

@mattkim96

10 ай бұрын

@@trader2137yeah, I doubt it was half as good as each of these specialized devices. My phone was capable of music playback too, but it sucked at it. No video and miserable UI, so I carried an iPod nano too.

@trader2137

10 ай бұрын

@@mattkim96 agree but Iphone was HORRIBLE, laggy and buggy and lacking tons of features at the start

@mattkim96

10 ай бұрын

@@trader2137 what? I got a day 1 iPhone, it was so much faster than every other phone and unbelievably more capable. The touch interface, app, and OS integration was revolutionary. Or did you have a phone that could do everything, or anything, the iPhone could (as well and quickly as it could)? The only I can think of was the blackberry, which handled sms and e-mail better.

Remember moving to Japan in September 2007, and seeing my first iPhone in early 2008 , thinking "Oh, that's one of those new things!" and then by the end of that year 90% of people on the train were glued to them. For better or worse it was a revolution.

@smilingpolitely12345

9 ай бұрын

Yes Steve Jobs chave changed world with iPhone ... and he fucked up our civilization by doing so , now days young girls spend more whole the time with phone , is very difficult to have relationship , and prediction show that in few years there will be loot of single childless middle age women ... and without those kids , who will work for all those people who will retire ? world is F in the A ...

I’ve been an iPhone user since 2017 and I don’t have any major complaints. It’s impressive that in my parent’s generation(and basically mine), we went from big, slow computers to pocketable supercomputers. My iPhone is the most powerful computer in my house and funny enough a pretty cable gaming, music production, web browsing, and all around great machine. Even if the current “right-to-repair” policies rub me the wrong way. Being born before the “modern” smartphone and not really owning a computer to have more power in may pocket than what NASA used to send those 3 astronauts to the moon is very impressive.

@AltonV

10 ай бұрын

My first smartphone was the iphone 3g. But after that I jumped ship and went to android. You are a lot more free with how you can use android devices.

@AldrickExGladius

10 ай бұрын

"My iPhone is the most powerful computer in my house" Wow, that says a lot more than you wanted it to

Sadly, like Apple you seem to have forgotten Jeff White who developed the multi touch screen that Apple bought (FinherWorks) . It was the key along with the keyboard that made the iPhone a killer phone. Jeff White was not even invited to the launch. Fun fact the iPhone used AI for the key prediction.

@another3997

10 ай бұрын

Sadly, Apple have forgotten much of the prior innovation that led to the existence of the iPhone. Apple stood on the shoulders of giants, who in turn stood on the shoulders of others, without whom none of our modern smartphones would exist.

I remember the day it came out. One of my customers got one and I couldn’t believe how amazing it was. I couldn’t afford it then but eventually got the iPhone 4. Now, I don’t know what I’d do without it. My whole life is run on my phone. I’m 62 years old and this thing makes me feel young. 😂To the point that I’m waiting for the 15 Pro Max even though my 14 Pro Max is just fine. Lol

A great video but it would've been interesting to have a short period of the video on how the Iphone sparked competing products and how it compares to the competition today.

@_TbT_

9 ай бұрын

It forced a redesign of Android after the presentation and Windows on mobile was there before, changed because of the iPhone and then went away, not having any success. That’s the competition in a nutshell. Ah, and there was Blackberry. Very big before the iPhone, in steady decline after, was an undead Zombie for a long time.

I still miss my indestructible Nokia phone 😅

@dohanddonuts5716

10 ай бұрын

Did you have a brick phone? My dad ran over his and the protector screen popped off. Still worked.

@ybing

10 ай бұрын

@@dohanddonuts5716 not anymore, but back then it was popular to slot the phone into your sling bag near the shoulder area, it always fall out and break in to pieces, just pick it up and assemble back together and works perfectly; forgot the model, I remember the frame can be changed easier with all different kind of aftermarket option, but I could be wrong, getting old lol

Is crazy to see this like a documentary and feeling like ancient history when this happened in my current lifetime. I was 18 years old at the time when this release while being the first teenager using a camera phone from Samsung and also using an iPod. Truly wild how much changes I have seen in human technology and what’s yet to come before my time

@joseanl

9 ай бұрын

It's for sure a weird feeling huh? Bc you think "it can't be a truly historic event right? I was there!" And yet it happend and it was a revolution. Contrary to the other type of world events: The wars, the pandemic, revolutions etc. This was integrated on our everyday life so fast that we don't think about it as a revolution bc we adapted really fast so we don't think about how it changed us

I remember holding out for so long on getting an iPhone. I just didn't think I would need it. Then one day, my carrier offered a deal with trading in my old Razr and getting i think it was an iPhone 4...and I never looked back.

Not sure if it is the Greatest Product but it defiantly the Greatest piece of Spyware ever.

@Welshmanshots

8 ай бұрын

Not to be that guy but anything you use is basically spyware.

When the original iPhone came out I had a Sony Ericsson P900, which was a pretty good smartphone for the time if a little old and put side by side with the iPhone it’s had to believe they’re from the same decade. A friend worked as a freelance tech journalist and so I got to watch the launch live and we were aghast the whole time. It could be argued the iPhone was such a earthquake moment that you could apply the same description for battleships, (ie “pre-dreadnought” and “Dreadnought” types) and ref to “pre-iPhone” and iPhone-type smartphones.

@MrMtanz

10 ай бұрын

Agreed. I remember seeing the launch back in 2007 and it was one of those tech experiences as a millennial that you just never forget (another being the first time you saw Mario in 3D for the N64).

@downwithtrudeau

10 ай бұрын

Blackberry

@TheRealMartin

10 ай бұрын

But the Sony Ericsson P990i and Blackberry's had more features, could copy and paste, customize ringtones and wallpapers, etc.

@deaks25

10 ай бұрын

@@TheRealMartin They did indeed, but in terms of style, they were years behind, especially the Sony Ericsson. The iPhone actually had very little in terms of feature set, but it was the packaging and presentation that was revolutionary. The P990 was an impressive device, but when did you actually last hear it mentioned? It was the smartphone equivalent of the beige PC case in terms of styling and because Apple added features and new versions fairly quickly, it’s now consigned to being a footnote in tech history.

@mattkim96

10 ай бұрын

@@TheRealMartin sure but for every thing those could do, there were two they couldn’t. No (decent) video playback, KZread, web browsing, multi-touch, accelerometer, etc. Did blackberries even have Wi-Fi back then? Genuine question.

" what comes next is hard to say"... it's the 15 series lol

I'm not a major Apple fan. The only product I've owned by them was the iPod because every other mp3 player at the time could only hold a few GB where the iPod held 140GB. I recognise that the iPhone was definitely a game changer in the Smartphone industry and pushed other companies to step their game up.

I bought one of the first iTouch device just before I travelled to Australia for the first time. I was astounding people in Australian airports booking flights and hotels. Something that was impossible otherwise, the i touch did every thing except make phone calls.

@tattooedredheadx

10 ай бұрын

No such product exists that you are calling the "iTouch"... Apple has never produced such a product.

@jiversteve

10 ай бұрын

@@tattooedredheadx Oh dear, check again. It looked like an early i phone but without phone functionality. It had wifi, a camera and a contact lists and other minor stuff.

@jeltoninc.8542

10 ай бұрын

It was the iPod touch.

@mattkim96

10 ай бұрын

Hehe, calling the iPod touch an “itouch” certifies you as a legitimate early adopter. I remember correcting people so often in middle school, I gave up and just accepted both names.

@skylarsoper241

10 ай бұрын

@@tattooedredheadxtheir meaning the iPod touch

I am AMAZED at the sheer number of CUTTING EDGE tech revolutions and products I have been able to experience SO EARLY nearly ALL my life! Born `76 - The Year of the FIRE DRAGON was an AWESOME start point!! GOD I love this ride!!

It’s not just the young using more iPhones. I’m 67 and got my first iPhone two years ago after several Google phones. I can’t imagine going back.

Great video. Now do one about "the rise and fall of Blackberry"

@dejablueguitar

10 ай бұрын

LMFAO!! I clung to the LAST with the damn Blackberry - then Microsoft sheight - then PALM SLIDE - then some other SPRINT shit - then... FINALLY arrived at iPhone... and wondered "what took me so long" "oh yeah iTunes PC - to put YOUR shit on it?" That's the ONLY THING I hate... iTunes!! Other than that... honestly, I have never looked back!

neXtstep was actually owned by Steve Jobs. They (Apple) bought the company to get Steve, and his new operating system back to Apple to revamp it. OSX was based heavily off neXtstep tech.

Congratulations on the 1 million subscribers Simon!🎉

I'm an android guy. Works good enough for me, and easier on my wallet. But I can see iPhone being something I may try eventually. Just android is so user friendly

@debralittle1341

10 ай бұрын

I hate the settings in iPhone. I'm and android user and my sister wanted me to fix something on her phone. On android it would have been so easy. On iPhone it was nuts. All the settings have different names and it's impossible to figure out what's what.

@Wormweed

10 ай бұрын

Missed calls and texts doesn't even show on the android home screen, you just see something happened, but not who it was from. This was the most annoying difference when i had an android work phone last year

@AltonV

10 ай бұрын

My first smartphone was the iphone 3g, but after that one I have only used androids

@CrisMind

10 ай бұрын

​@@Wormweedmine does, and most before the current android I have Maybe a settings issue? But I understand where that would be frustrating

@Wormweed

10 ай бұрын

@@CrisMind I don't know, i think the phone was 2 years old. I was driving a special goods delivery truck, and every time i missed a call or a text i had to stop the car and unlock the phone and then go into calls or texts to find out more, when you just touch the screen it shows the enter code screen, or just the background with the clock. I asked a few android users and they said the same. Maybe it was a user error, i don't know.

Thank you, Smartphones. You make not having memorized the multiplication table feel like a good choice.

An excellent video, thank you Simon.

Even though I am watching this on my iPhone, I’d be happy to switch to an android smart flip phone for pocket space, and I love my Samsung Chromebook. For me it’s the iPad Mini that I am in love with.

@Unknowngfyjoh

10 ай бұрын

Can you tell me a brand and model of a "smart flip phone"?

6:09 LOL, I was JUST thinking about that. I still have mine - still works.

The Day of the Dissonance by Alan Dean Foster. I first read this book in 1985. In it, a kangaroo uses a handheld device to access the inventory of her warehouse. It is a fantasy novel, after all. This is the first time I read of a handheld device with a touch interface that connects wirelessly to a central computer system.

@another3997

10 ай бұрын

Star Trek did it decades before 1985, and they in turn took the basic idea from other sci-fi sources. 2001: A space odyssey showed handheld "tablet" devices. It would be interesting to identify the very first introduction of what we might consider a wireless smart device appearing in a sci-fi novel.

@williamholmes7529

10 ай бұрын

@@another3997 As an avid reader and watcher of science fiction for nearly 50 years, I can think of many instances of communication and input/output devices. I used this example as the description in the book was almost a word perfect description of a mobile phone.

Id love to see Danny, Kevin, or Dave give Apple the Blaze treatment. I type from my Android. Definitely no animosity here.

@Genghis-Jon

10 ай бұрын

Fellow Android user here! As soon as I saw the thumbnail, I texted a screenshot to my (iPhone owning) friend saying "The Whistler boycott starts now!" I then watched the video.

@jacobrzeszewski6527

10 ай бұрын

Non android user here. Apple has kinda rested on its laurels. Lightning sucks and you need a big butt adapter to do anything. Getting video and photos off it on PC is a PITA and slow. And EVERYTHING is made of delicate glass. But despite all this I still rock an iPhone. Nothing quite fills the void like an iPhone does for me.

@chrisbentleywalkingandrambling

10 ай бұрын

Android all the way. Zfold3 and loving it.

@SEAZNDragon

10 ай бұрын

It will have to be an Epic Blaze or multipart series.

@mildlydazed9608

10 ай бұрын

@@SEAZNDragonan epic blaze is long overdue

As the price of a phone went from less than $15 at Walmart for well over $1000 for something that would interrupt your life constantly for the rest of your life

@mattkim96

10 ай бұрын

Yeah, those phones sucked. And I’ve bought a burner Android phone for $15. I was able to run n64 games on it, decently fast honestly. But there’s always people who think yesterday was always better, even when we objectively just have better phones now

I have watched the original iPhone keynote live online back in January 2007 and was completely blown away by it. Rocking a Windows mobile device (clunky as hell and with a stylus, huach). The capacitative display was soooo much better than the pressure sensitive displays of the time. The „swipe to unlock“, the scrolling, the keyboard, everything was revolutionary a the time and absolutely unheard of. People saying: „but Android“… the first version of Android came out autumn of that year with a complete redesign which copied the iPhone features. The iPhone is indeed one of the single greatest products of all time.

I still miss the clicky spin wheel on the ipod. Something so satisfying about scrolling through your music with your ipod back in the day.

How about the Model T? Lot of similarities in market impact.

The toilet is one of the mvp's, 2nd was the printing press. The iPhone ranks in the top 30. It is an amazing device that changed modern day for food and bad but also it seems to have a big but narrow change on society while the toilet and printing press changed the world.

@felipe367

10 ай бұрын

Well he did specific narrow it down in the intro to “retail product”

my first smartphone was a iphone 4s, now I'm using an s21+

I just watched this video on my little Samsung just fine thank you🎉

@jefffoy530

10 ай бұрын

Thank Apple lol🙏🤙✌️🫶🌍👽

@Mayor_Of_Eureka17

10 ай бұрын

Superior product for sure.

@myrlyn1250

10 ай бұрын

Cheaper, too! Also, Google Play is supposed to have a better/cheaper selection of apps vs the App Store, but I've never had an IPhone, so I don't know about that.

@abbofun9022

10 ай бұрын

So? Does that in any way discredit the impact of the iPhone?

@mike4769

10 ай бұрын

@@jefffoy530 apple should thank Samsung for all the chips they made for the iPhone. I'm not a iPhone hater, and infact I'm going back to iPhone after many Samsungs. They both have their strengths to consider.

Any phone beats standing in a queue outside the old red phone box in all weathers☔

4:13 Yeah, but because it’s capacitive, the screen confuses a little drop of water for your fingertip. I’m still holding out hope that the DRAS prototype gains some ground.

Thank you for making this. Could you make a video about Xbox (2001) and PlayStation One or Playstation Two?

I think this video would’ve been better with much more B-roll of the original iPhone, not the newer models. Would’ve painted a much better picture, especially when first discussing the iPhone being designed and built.

Quite probably. Also the worst, considering how much social media and that damage hangs on it.

Blackberry deserves way more credit here... 85 Million subscribers at one point. I was doing email on my Blackberry in the 1990's. Steve jobs didn't invent anything, it was the natural convergence of technologies.

@flarpman2233

10 ай бұрын

Yup. I love Whistler but he (and some of his team) are admittedly apple fanboys, the amount of gushing and bias here certainly confirmed it! lol

@dougaldouglas8842

10 ай бұрын

Mother, along with the village, used to go Blackberry picking. This trended long before this present age.

@JW-uv7ww

10 ай бұрын

Right, but you ain't sending nothing on a Blackberry right now are ya? How many people have a Blackberry?

@JW-uv7ww

10 ай бұрын

@@flarpman2233 mmmmmm yeah, feel that burn way down in your tummy

@whiteandnerdytuba

10 ай бұрын

Black berry is a joke just like you

I dont have an IPhone. I am planning to buy one with 2-3 months. Great respect for Apply. They design hardware, their own OS. One step further would be manufacturing the phone itself in US.

@RogierYou

10 ай бұрын

At what cost and how much ate you willing to pay for truly made in USA?

@macethorns1168

10 ай бұрын

Don't hold your breath, the only reason they're a trillion dollar company is because they use slave labor to make their devices.

@CaptainCataractss

10 ай бұрын

TSMC said s owning a plant in Arizona that will produce chips for Apple. And I know apple also manufactures some parts or assembles some things, in the USA. So that’s something at least.

@Crimethoughtfull

10 ай бұрын

@@RogierYou Only corporate greed would make it more expensive, and the market of what people are willing to pay will deal to that.

@felipe367

10 ай бұрын

@@Crimethoughtfullwhose greed though? It would still be subject to high labour costs and other high costs if manufactured in the US.

Ahhhhh foxxconn, the building with nets to reduce cleanup of human cement darts. Wonderful place to work!

I still prefer having an audio jack. Wireless ear buds only keep charge for so long, and it's nice to be able to switch between wireless and corded when working long hours.

@mattkim96

10 ай бұрын

I’ve spent so much money circumventing the need for a headphone Jack (AirPods, wireless chargers, wireless power banks). Love the iPhone, but still hate this decision. Also disappointed Samsung and Google followed suit after making fun of it for so long.

@simracing4simpletons978

10 ай бұрын

@@mattkim96 It wasn't for convenience, it was for creating a problem and then selling you the solution. Apple's rivals saw the money apple was making on their unique phone charging cables and the apple headphones that you could buy that of course were specialized with correct port, then airpods came out and also needed their own charging case, which could be replaced as well, plus the accessories that could then be sold to jazz up your airpods. I love my iPhone and have since the 3GS, but it's pretty clear what the marketing and sales teams were up to with regards to all the accessories. google and microsoft just caught on and joined in.

We need videos for blackberry and Samsung now too😂

Switched from Samsung galaxy 2 years ago to an older iPhone. Super happy with my switch I don’t have issues with my phone now. Not going back, love apple products

Still smart phone free, don't want one, don't need one, cannot afford one.

@mrougelot

10 ай бұрын

Next stage: go electricity free

@karintippett753

10 ай бұрын

@@mrougelot hydrogen powered

I feel that this invention has been a blessing and a curse, these phones and social media has created more division and contributed to the degeneration of our society, people don’t talk anymore, they type

Brought true supercomputers to the masses. Hands down. Once I got my first iPhone, I’d never want any other brand afterwards.

Me using Windows Pocket PC in early 2000s would beg to differ.

Still remember my first "mobile phone" .... I mean, Siemens C10 sure was far away from what nowadays kids would call a mobile phone :D

@Jaysin412

10 ай бұрын

I had a pager in the 90s. Cell phones were only for rich ppl

@renaissanceredneck3695

10 ай бұрын

I worked in construction with my dad. He had a bag phone he kept in the truck back in 1990, by the time I started with him in 97, he had Nextel, those phones weren't quite the size of the brick phones, but it was close. I hated/loved the touch to talk. It was like having a walkie talkie that worked at ANY range. Then Sprint bought them, and the service went WAY down, by this point we were using our own phones. I had gotten a BlackBerry by this point. I will never own an apple product if I can help it.

@Jaysin412

10 ай бұрын

My first cell phone was one of the first flip phone/clam shell phones they had in the late 90s. I'd honestly love to go back to something like that rather than a smart/surveillance phone we use nowadays

The Palm Treo also deserves mention. It was much less "sexy" but quite useful before iPhone existed, more so than the very first smartphones shown.

@mattkim96

10 ай бұрын

It was pretty hot ngl

@another3997

10 ай бұрын

But the whole Palm Treo line was preceded by the innovative Handspring Treo line, which was the next step from the innovative Handspring Razor, which was created by the original founders of Palm... and Palm themselves had already taken ideas from several others, including licencing and modifying an existing OS. But look up the history of Symbian, by far the most successful phone OS of the early smartphone era. It's roots go back to Psion and their 32 bit, fully preemptive multitasking EPOC OS, used in their 32 bit PDAs.

@another3997

10 ай бұрын

​@@mattkim96Which Palm Treo? There were many different models over the years. Not to mention the original Treo line from Handspring, who Palm eventually bought.

@Sb129

10 ай бұрын

That is because it isn't conducive to the whole "Apple made smartphones" that everyone thinks. Simon only tangentially acknowledges that 'some smartphones kind of existed before the iPhone' when in truth, Palm OS, Windows Mobile, Symbian and Blackberry OS ran circles around the very first iPhone in actual utility. The first iPhone didn't even have 3rd party applications, the default ones were all ya got, no app store until the 3G came out in 2008. And the iPhone itself was barely usable until the 3GS anyways, 2009.

I'm wondering what Steve would think of the Apple Pencil 🤣

I'd say the Singer sewing machine has had a far wider impact than the iPhone. Several Singer sewing machines made in the 19th Century are still in daily use worldwide. How many original iPhones do you expect to still see used regularly for both pleasure and industry in 150 years?

@IKilledEarl

9 ай бұрын

I agree. I own and still use my mother's Singer sewing machine. It was a basic model but the damn thing is a beast and is still going strong at 50 years old. I hate Apple products and will remain a Samsung/Galaxy user for life.

They do need to put a dang headphone Jack back in though.

@macethorns1168

10 ай бұрын

Don't hold your breath. They took away a *chunk of the screen* and their customer base is too stupid to care.

Johnny Ives is understated in this vid. He was essentially the designer. He insisted that it be only on glass touch screen sheet, no buttons for the keyboard, etc. The iPhone was a convergence of technologies, as Simon says, not an innovation. It was introduced in 2007, not before, because the component technologies were not there.

@mattkim96

10 ай бұрын

…he was mentioned several times throughout the video regarding the iPhone’s design…

This video made me start to wonder what kind of a phone we could fit into that original chassis now with all fields being much more advanced now.

@huwzebediahthomas9193

10 ай бұрын

Smartphones now have more computational power than an early 1980's supercomputer that filled a room then.

@mildlydazed9608

10 ай бұрын

@@huwzebediahthomas9193 exactly but what better way to show the true generational improvement then staying the same size and making it better. Phones have gradually increased to the sizes of early tablets now so of course they have more compute power than the original iPhone. I want to see current top of the line tech in a form factor that size.

Simon Whistler , arguably has the thickest beard on the internet !

@WarpRadio

10 ай бұрын

We can thank 'Keeps' and 'Dollar Shave Club" for that!

Can you ever do a video about the M-16 rifle?

I like my Android and have never owned an IPhone. Will your IPhone let you copy mp3 music, which I created for the CD's I bought 30 years ago, files from your computer and play them?

@black8jaac

4 ай бұрын

Yes

1:05 - Chapter 1 - Conception & rough starts 6:45 - Chapter 2 - Project purple 14:50 - Chapter 3 - Innovations & elevation

I'd suggest, the wheel, electricity, the steam engine and penicillin to name just a few things that are better than any phone.

@aelux4179

10 ай бұрын

None of these are a product though. Sure they are far, far more impactful inventions, but not products.

@beeftec5862

10 ай бұрын

@@aelux4179 Windows 95 PCs built the Internet. iPhone users would never have build such a network. So Windows 95 as a product?

@Mayor_Of_Eureka17

10 ай бұрын

​@@aelux4179may want to check again when you need a new wheel for your car guy. Yikes.

@aelux4179

10 ай бұрын

@@Mayor_Of_Eureka17 A wheel is not a product, the specific pirelli tyre for my car is a product, the rim BMW produced for my car is a product but the wheel is an invention. As I said the wheel is more impactful than the iPhone, but the wheel is not a product

@abbofun9022

10 ай бұрын

Not sure where you’re from but over here in Europe those things were introduced well before the 21st century, so I think iPhone as best product in 21st century stands unchallenged 😎

0:11 Other than the Blackberry and a very similar Motorola, were there any smartphones when the iPhone debuted?

Unlike the original iPhone, the Nokia N95 had a camera as good as it even better than cheaper point and shoot digital cameras, and with video recording, it had GPS and 3G and were useful for working outside Wifi. I’m not even sure Nokia didn’t have basic Apps before the iPhone, which was a year later. I switched to iPhones at iPhone 4, where their technical inferiority was reduced to a point it was bearable to be able to get the better UX. Oh, and by then they had copy and paste, which I consider a hygiene factor for productive UX. not beating on Apple, they had started from scratch, and I do use them now, but the first iphone was mostly a game-changer due to 2 things… the touch screen UX, which was breathtaking, and the compulsory data package. The latter really worked to encourage much more use and engagement, where other phone users were megabyte watching.

I still miss having the home button on the bottom of my phone that I can press without having to turn on the screen. Like an actual button you can feel because it sticks out above the phone surface

@Primal-Weed

10 ай бұрын

Nah

I still prefer the iPod click wheel over touch screen for music.

I mean there's also a list a fails with iPhone. There was the "you're holding it wrong" when users had issues with signal cutting out. Bendgate brought about the excuse of "wait, you carry your device in your back pocket? Well there's your problem. Not at all that we shaved so much material from the chassis of the device to cut costs it's way to fragile and bendy". There was the "red dots of uneconomical to repair due to liquid damage" which was a fun one. The latest "Titanium" iPhone that has the grand total of around $30-$40 worth of titanium in it and as it's just a frame doesn't actually add any strength to the device even though it's apparently the main selling point of it. iPhone was also the main device that kicked off apples literal crusade against indipendant repair, although we really should have seen that coming with it being a sealed device. Was the iPhone revolutionary? Heck yes, of course it was. It's just a shame it came from a company that is as anti consumer as Apple. All hail the cult of Apple though! 😂

@stancil83

6 ай бұрын

omg I remember this. they didn't shave material off or whatever, they switched to an aluminum frame screwing over all the people who put their iPhones in their back pockets. Allegedly a friend of a friend asked me if I could photoshop something for him. he allegedly sent me a generic apple phone ad and marked on the ad all the changes he wanted. I was laughing so hard thinking there's no way people are so stupid they would fall for a fake ad after they've already purchased the phone. And ad so ridiculous it suggested that's the bending wasn't a flaw but design feature for the new flex screen. lololol. It goes on encouraging users to try out the new feature saying they're going to be surprised how much flex there is, lol they're so stupid they do it omg i got to stop laughing this is like the 100th time I rewritten this part. awwww good times =)

Watching this on my iPhone 11. 🎉

I still remember trying to convince my parents to buy me a Motorola pager in 1998. lol

I often use iOS GarageBand 🎸 on my iPhone 📱 11 Pro to make my own music 🎶. I write ✍️ songs based on the dark brooding corners of lost female vocalists.

the launch price was WITH contract, not just the phone.

6:40 But initially, iPhone call quality was quite lacking. I switched from Nokia to iPhone, and AT&T sent me a free microcell because I couldn’t get a signal in my concrete & steel high rise even if I went onto my balcony.

@CaptainCataractss

10 ай бұрын

So true! That was a big problem.

@j.p.6932

10 ай бұрын

@@CaptainCataractss It was so frustrating. With my Nokia, if all else field I just had to get to a window or the balcony. I feel like with the older phones, there were varying degrees of call quality, but with iPhone it went to “signal or no signal” nothing in between.

0:20 And now everyone is obsessed with the little black brick in their hands, to the point where everything is app based or done from your phone. Step forward and step back.

@jeltoninc.8542

10 ай бұрын

It’s literally made most mundane things easier. A tool is a tool. You can’t change the moron operating it.

0:55 Hah, none in this house! But I suspect Simon is largely correct.

Yep just watched this video on my iPhone.

In 2019 just before the COVID pandemic got really bad I was a ride share driver. I had picked up a passenger at LAX, and in a conversation during the ride, he informed me that he oversaw the transport of large shipments of new i Phones around the U.S. Turns out that theft and sometimes hijacking is a serious problem for Apple. I gathered that because they are shipped in very large quantities sometimes individual phone are stolen from within the mass of phones in a shipping box and this has gone unnoticed until after delivery, also entire shipments may have been hijacked while in transit necessitating secret convoys, with multiple guard vehicles using varying routes, and the like. All very hush, hush. He also disclosed that Apple may have the means of tracking brand new phone, when and if they are stolen, but would not go into detail. Sound like an interesting subject to explore in one of your segments, If Apple doesn’t try to kibosh it.

Apple sold us a bill of goods. Our screens were getting bigger. Then, somehow, Jobs came along and convinced us we wanted to use this little three inch screen for everything. Sure, I've got my Android phone. And I read books on it, rather than bringing a real book. (Can't look back at the artwork, and I don't know how many screens equals one page.) And when I'm out walking, I can try to use it for directions. I can barely read the miniscule text. I'm using my 55" tv to watch your videos.

All comments before this one were made without watching the video to completion.

@macethorns1168

10 ай бұрын

You don't know if people watch on 1.5x speed...

@GloriousSimplicity

10 ай бұрын

@@macethorns1168 this comment was posted 10 minutes after the video went live. It's a 20 minute video. I covered my bases.

I agree. IPhone is the best product launch I can remember and the service side of the product, the App will probably be very important for Apple. I remember waiting for the new product Apple was working on and being disappointed with the Rokr phone. Testing out AI during the early 2020's gave me some of the same expectations as waiting for the new product/iPhone.

@another3997

10 ай бұрын

Apple are certainly good at doing product launches, even if what they are launching isn't particularly new or innovative, like several of their computers. Yes, the iPhone was innovative, but it didn't actually use technology that wasn't already available, it just combined them in to one product. Apps were already a thing, but the app store was innovative. Various smartphones had already been available for years. The first iOS wasn't even a true multitasking OS, unlike several older smartphone OSs. But Apple knew how to make things look and sound "sexy", despite all the faults and limitations.

Informative video, but personally the Samsung Galaxy series has been my favourite and best bang for buck, iPhone mostly has pay to use apps, lesser quality hardware for price paid compared to the Samsung due to the Android OS (app wise) and many more people have a Samsung device compared to an iPhone these days, i have never had an iPhone and most people i know that have tried out a Samsung that use an iPhone originally, ultimately agree the Samsung Galaxy is much better once they adjust to the differences. Would be a good next video, if you haven't got one prepared already one already, iPhone vs Samsung Galaxy.

Definitely an innovative device that changed the world, it also created lots of jobs in developing countries and an exciting industry of non-recycling. It is good and bad in equal measure.

I remember attending a concert around 2007, the iPhone had just released. I had not even seen it yet. A friend of mine showed up to the concert and was showing it off. When he opened the zippo app and flicked the lighter on…I was hooked. I had to have one! But I was poor and work provided my phone, so I had to wait. My first iPhone was a 4s, my second was a 4s, followed by a 6s, xr, and now a 14 pro. I’ve had Samsung and blackberry smart phones mixed in as work phones, but I’ve always preferred my iPhones.

Lol. Nice one Simon et al...almost true too...🤣🤣🤣😉🤠

agreed.

My first iPhone was a blue iPhone 5c. Then I was on Android for several years and came back to the iPhone with the iPhone SE in 2020. Nowadays my main phone is an iPhone 14 Pro Max. I still remember having an iPod Nano as my music player and not realizing how much the iPhone would revolutionize so many damn things.

One thing you can always hate jobs for is his anti consumer idea that unfortunately spread to basically the entire industry.

Hello Simon

16:22 It looks so sleek and small compared to what we have today.

My daughter's Apple 14 pro truly is a heavyweight compared to my lightweight Nokia android 2 4 or something. You should see my daughter's shoulders now, they are like an endurance long distance swimmer, maybe because she is. Done the channel. tick

you can live without a smartphone, and there are more things you can't live without like the humble car, train or bus

Rumour has it that Lev Grossman has a movie producer brother named _Les._

My first and only experience with an iPhone was with my iPhone 4S. I had bad memory in the phone and it kept crashing and locking up. I took it to the "so called Genius Bar" explained to them the problem and I even had to show the "so called Genius" how to look at the crash log on the phone. Even after my insistence in just replacing the defective phone. They decide just to wipe the phone and told me to come back if I had anymore issues. Sure enough I was back the following week with the same problem and tons of crash reports to show them, yet again. I didn't like the fact I had to jailbreak my phone if I wanted to side load apps that weren't available on the app store. So after my next upgrade of a phone I switched to Samsung Note series phones and never looked back. Just the sheer amount of extra features I can do on a Samsung Note, out weighs any iPhone.

@WTDoorley

10 ай бұрын

Did you jailbreak the phone before you started having problems? If so, that violated the warranty. I used to be an iPhone tech at the Genius Bar, and we weren't even supposed to work on phones that were modified or jailbroken. The idea was we might do more harm than good since we couldn't predict how the phone would respond. Maybe it was an excuse and maybe not, but if you want to load apps not available on an app store an Android phone is probably a better choice for you.

@Laurie_H

10 ай бұрын

@@WTDoorley ya, I was having issues before I had jailbroke the phone.

Friend of mine has the iPhone 14. He hates it, and tells it that frequently.😂 It may have begun as the best but it seems like everything else: decrease quality for higher profit. (FYI, I've never owned an iAnything. I'm too cheap to pay $1,200 for a freaking phone.)

@CarlWithACamera

10 ай бұрын

How about for a supercomputer that fits in your pocket, that replaces a still camera, a video camera, a calculator, a GPS navigator, all those paper maps we used to carry in our glove compartments, a portable TV and radio, an alarm clock, a compass, a personal computer (for many people), a photo album, a portable music player, an organizer, a huge pile of travel guidebooks, a calandra, and a whole array of otter stand-alone single-purpose products that used to fill a whole lot more landfill space and were a whole lot less recyclable than a modern smartphone? Now how much would you pay? It just depends on how old you are - how far back you can remember experiencing the world before such technology came along - that determines how much of the immense value the modern concept of a smartphone represents to you. And it was Apple that defined ‘modern smartphone.’

@Chris-NZ

10 ай бұрын

@@CarlWithACameraWell said, I grew up in a world of party lines and toll operators, I was resistant to Apple originally, finally got an IPhone4 and have been sold on all their products ever since especially the way they talk to each other. If as you say I added up the cost of all the things you mention that I have bought in the past the Iphone would seem cheap. In the 1970’s I bought a battery powered pocketable calculator with little orange number so I could use it for my part time structural engineering study, it cost two weeks wages, but was worth it compared to a slide rule and log tables. 😀 Arh yes you young people don’t know how lucky you are when it comes to technology.

@jeltoninc.8542

10 ай бұрын

It’s kind of strange to hate an inanimate object. Perhaps rethink your friends.

@beagleissleeping5359

10 ай бұрын

@@Chris-NZ I told someone the other day about my relative having trouble when we had dial up internet. Their response: What's dial up internet?

@beagleissleeping5359

10 ай бұрын

@@CarlWithACamera if I needed a super computer it would definitely be worth it, but considering my main use is internet, phone and KZread I'm good. I can remember rotary dial phones. I can remember 56k internet being considered awesome. I can remember our school getting the great prize of an Apple 2e computer with a color monitor. Only one, though. 🤣

It was an interesting transition to live through. Now we are entering the AI technology transition.

My I product user experience. The urge to chuck the thing into a brick wall when I had to try to get the menu to work. Honestly I think I products have some of the WORST usability when compared to Android. I've taught my 93 year old grandfather to use his tablet. Over my time I've had so many older I users conned by salesmen into buying them because they are 'easier to use but are so confused by them they can barely use the phone function. So yeah ill never own on....unless to get my jolly by burning the blasted thing. That being said I do respect the phone for what it did for its time. But it still needs improvements and when you live where there's no apple shops repairs are a b***h and a half

Like hell did ride sharing apps and such apps as Uber and Lyft make public transport obsolete... You're right that they made taxis irrelevant though.

No mention of the IBM Simon? Thats the first Smartphone long before the existence of the Iphone

Like the comments: newer had en iPhone, but i know is not the best😂

I had a htc diamond when the iphone came out and it was way nicer at the time

And the iPhone is not the same after Jobs passed away. I agree that the iPhone is probably the greatest invention in the modern age. It's just that Apple is not the same without Jobs

the old ones most certainly can fit under that category, but the newer ones are far from the greatest product of all time