• jarfil@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Jobs insisted on removing the keypad from a smartphone. He didn’t make the multitouch display, but he did force app developers to take it seriously.

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      1 year ago

      The iPhone didn’t originally have apps other than basic ones that shipped with the phone, like Safari, YouTube, calculator, etc…

      People hacked the first gen to run things like an NES emulator. Apple promptly shut that down and introduced the app store.

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      1 year ago

      I don’t hate Jobs for that, but I despise almost every other fucking company panicking in order to copy that shit. Blackberry keyboards were great stuff in the early 2010s.