How would the iPhone have evolved if Steve Jobs hadn't died? - eviltoast

We miss you steve

  • Alwaysaprairiegirl@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    The camera mountain on the back would have been flat. Maybe the phone would have been thicker with a better battery but it wouldn’t just bulge out.

    • GenghisFrog@alien.topBEnglish
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      10 months ago

      I’m not so sure. A phone as thick as the camera hump would be way more unwieldy than you think. And filling it with battery would make it very heavy. If they decided to keep the cameras shallow then the iPhone would be massively behind in camera taking ability.

      • turbo_dude@alien.topBEnglish
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        10 months ago

        In Steve’s eyes, we would’ve used iPads for hours of pointless internet browsing, not phones.

        Phones would’ve stayed smaller.

    • Izanagi___@alien.topBEnglish
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      10 months ago

      I can fit my 14 in jeans with a case on and a card holder on the back just fine. A phone that thick would be an absolute nightmare lmao

    • Portatort@alien.topBEnglish
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      10 months ago

      Steve would have gone with a before making the phones thicker year over year.

      An iPhone 15 with the same camera and no bump would be thicker than the iPhone 4

      I no chance

  • BruteSentiment@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    The iPhone isn’t a question. Its roadmap up to the X was probably set by that point.

    It’s the iPad and Mac evolutions that probably would’ve been very different, though the move to the M chips was probably the plan back then.

    • medicalgringo@alien.topOPBEnglish
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      10 months ago

      The iPhone isn’t a question. Its roadmap up to the X was probably set by that point.

      It’s the iPad and Mac evolutions that probably would’ve been very different, though the move to the M chips was probably the plan back then.

      i agree at all. but what would be different in iPhone after x series?

      • bran_the_man93@alien.topBEnglish
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        10 months ago

        It most certainly was already envisioned and being actively developed on internally in different steps.

        They move hundreds of millions of iPhones per year. They have tremendous amounts of planning to do in order to achieve this kind of production.

        I would be shocked if the iPhone launching in 2034 doesn’t already have a solid roadmap and early decisions are already being made

            • fell_over@alien.topBEnglish
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              10 months ago

              Lets catchup when you play resident evil village on your iPhone 15 pro or pro max. I am telling you from first hand experience 2 days ago. I’ve tried it on 15pm

            • fell_over@alien.topBEnglish
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              10 months ago

              I am saying that this is not a software issue as said by them. It’s a powerful chip. Probably more than a phone can handle.

      • Jozex21@alien.topBEnglish
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        10 months ago

        i think the idea of making iphone full screen was planned from the start

        they were waiting for screen of that type

  • lucasoak@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    Flat design would never happen, we would see an evolution from raster skeuomorphic to 3D graphic’s skeuomorphic

  • Guh_Meh@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    We miss you steve

    I dont miss him at all (I am not saying “I’m glad he’s dead”).

    Much prefer Tim Apple Cook as the head of Apple.

  • louman84@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    No notch and one single camera that can zoom but not stick out when not in use. Some design ideas would either come earlier or later like LED screens and plus size phones.

  • ShreddityReddity@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    when i was a teenager, i asked my mom how she thought steve jobs (like, 1970s jobs) would react to an iMac made today. she responded with “steve jobs would probably say it sucks, and that he could make one better”.

    that always stuck with me as something profound

  • whatgift@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    I imagine we would be stuck with small phones and designs that would seem like innovation but really aren’t. Also iOS would be nowhere near as flexible as it is now. Steve was all about marketing.

  • venicerocco@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    I can’t see it having three camera lenses and an uneven wobble when you put it down. One day we’re all gonna look back and ask why did we need so many lenses??

  • _pjanic@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    Lot of people saying the phone wouldn’t have gotten bigger, but the Android side showed that people wanted OMG HEUG phones.

    I think the notch would have never passed the Jobsian review.

    I do think that the camera bump would also have driven him crazy so he might have ordered the team to design around it.

    But there’s not much you can really do once the shape reaches the flat rectangle. So, I don’t the phones would be radically different.

  • DanscoRed@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    I would suspect like other have said there would t be a new one every year and doubt the latest ones would be selling for over £1000/$1000 each.