The new iPhones, slated to drop on Sept. 22, feature never-before-seen color-infused glass — an “industry first” — and new charging ports.

Apple users bash new iPhone 15: ‘Innovation died with Steve Jobs’::Smart phone fans are griping about Apple’s new devices since the arguably anti-climactic announcement of the forthcoming iPhone 15 and iPhone 15 Plus on Tuesday.

  • BobKerman3999@feddit.itEnglish
    52·
    1 year ago

    They were called applications or programs… the big innovation was the walled garden store only from which you can install programs. Before that you went to the software developer 's website and downloaded the package

    • scvEnglish
      21·
      1 year ago

      Apple did not invent the term “app”, “app store”, or the concept of an app store. There was an app store called App Store for NeXT in 1991 that Jobs knew about, and many similar systems in the intervening years.

      The only thing different about Apple’s app store was the restriction on users’ ability to install apps from other sources.

      Jobs was great at business, not at tech.

      • DeadlineX@lemm.eeEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        NeXt was founded by jobs when he got kicked out of apple. Then, apple acquired NeXT, and jobs once again became CEO. So NeXT was basically jobs throwing a fit. I’d consider them basically apple.

        • scvEnglish
          1·
          1 year ago

          I’m aware of the history, but I don’t think you understood what I wrote. An app store was written for NeXT by an independent company, without Jobs’ involvement.

          Would you give credit to Bill Gates for all windows software written while he was CEO?

          • DeadlineX@lemm.eeEnglish
            1·
            1 year ago

            Sorry the “that jobs knew about” made it seem like apple stole it from NeXT. I was just saying that of course he knew about. It was a company he started and ran because he was mad at Pepsi.

            My point was just that NeXT having something is just like apple having something in my opinion.

            • scvEnglish
              1·
              1 year ago

              Mad at Pepsi? Haha that’s a funny way to put it. He got fired when he butted heads with Sculley, the former PepsiCo president, that he had hired, and the board sided with Sculley.

              Giving credit to Apple/NeXT for software made by a different company is creative. The same logic applied to Microsoft makes things interesting.

      • uranibaba@lemmy.worldEnglish
        11·
        1 year ago

        Jobs was great at business, not at tech.

        That’s not true, he was part of the team that developed Apple Lisa and later on developed Macintosh. He probably did much more.