i had never seen this perspective of the original iPhone keynote that makes the audience reaction that much more real here's the reaction to seeing slide to unlock for the first time:
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@jsngr that ui element viscerally sold the whole realtime touch concept in a single half-second gif
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@jsngr For people who’ve never used capacitive touch devices before this was truly a mind-blowing interaction
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@jsngr The world had literally never seen a touch screen that used a finger. Apple changed the world with a mass-produced multi-input touch screen
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@jsngr This is so good 😂🙏 I feel like this should be the second part of the Arthur Clark quote that “any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic…and becomes comically mundane shortly after”.
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@jsngr I wonder how many times touchesBegan(_ touches: Set<UITouch>, with event: UIEvent?) has been called since then…
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@jsngr Saw a documentary yesterday about the rise of the Internet and it's almost bizarre to see the reaction of people to these things now that we've had the technology for a while. You sometimes forget that we're basically Androids at this point.
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@jsngr Lol. I really wish I could experience that feeling of wonder with watching this in 2024!
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@jsngr It’s a Swedish patent invented by Neonode years before Apple presented it. https://t.co/Nrug4o9U6d
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@jsngr These simple things is what killed Nokia, BlackBerry and maybe to some extent the LG cellphone division over the years.
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@jsngr Love it! I dissected this a few years back. What struck me is how much Steve makes the case for the iPhone—there’s charts! Multiple! We really don’t see the OS until the 15min mark. It’s self-evident today, but Steve had to prime people for what they’d be seeing.
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@jsngr To me this is why the live events were better than the slick video productions they do now
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@jsngr “Unbelievable” interesting how back then, technology barely managed to unlock an iPhone, and now, everyone having a battle on having more megapixels and that…
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@jsngr I still remember the first time my cousin showed me his iPod Touch. It’s like I had seen alien technology. It was a mixture of confussion and excitement.
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@jsngr @hnshah what's even more remarkable is the lack of uproarious cheering after he says he removed all the buttons. People just didn't see it....
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@jsngr I also absolutely love the moment the audience realises Steve's not announcing 3 devices (phone, widescreen ipod and internet communicator) but it's an all in one. Revolutionary.
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@jsngr Jobs stole this from the Swedish company Neonode, and Apple are just about to pay through the nose for that infringement.
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