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Thursday 27 February 2014

Former Apple director: the original iPhone ‘was not a great phone, it was an OK phone’

Original iPhone (three-up, profile, front, back)


Believe it or not, Apple’s former director has apologized to the owners of the original iPhone because the handset, to paraphrase him, wasn’t really that great as Apple would have us believe at the time.


He pointed out that all of the technological pieces used in the original iPhone had been around for some time. Apple simply combined them seamlessly together in such a way that technology took a back seat to user interface, he underscored.


Specifically, he said Apple got its value proposition order the wrong way around in advertising the iPhone as three devices in one – a phone, an iPod and an Internet communicator. “It should have been the reverse”, he said at Mobile World Congress while speaking at a Dolby presentation, because ”having the Internet in your pocket was the most important”…(...)

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