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BasicAppleGuyiPhone concepts from 2006, a year before the iPhone actually launched...
Quintessential Quicksand@BasicAppleGuy I *do* miss the slider phone I had before my 1st iPhone... aww
Brian Hough@BasicAppleGuy God, these make me feel so old. I remember the prevailing thought around the MacRumors Forums at the time was that the iPhone would essentially be an iPod with a cell phone modem. How wrong we all were!
CTD@brianhough @BasicAppleGuy now that all phones look like iPhones it is incredible to think how different and revolutionary it was.
Christian Kent šš :ļ¼¼ļ¹„@brianhough @BasicAppleGuy the MOTO ROKR could have been so much more
Mind you, if the RAZR 2 had become the Apple phone and succeeded and kept evolving, I wonder how that might have influenced the 2007 product and onwards
Steven Huang@whophd The ROKR was a dead end, little more than an iPod rewritten in Java but without the clickwheel that made iPods shine, and some white plastic.
(The iPod phone was real but also a dead end, this time with the clickwheel in the role of the cement shoes, because you couldnāt type text with it.)
Specifically, neither could run MobileSafari.
@mariani1 @brianhough @BasicAppleGuy oh I meant way less when I said "so much more" ā I just meant the RAZR and RAZR 2
@whophd Ah, sorry! I misread your first sentence.
But I still disagree: I donāt think the iPhone wouldāve been possible as a partnership. There were just too many cultural incompatibilities - starting at the very top - and I suspect you could rattle off your own lists of āApple would never haveā¦ā and āMotorola would never haveā¦ā when you examine each of what needed to be built.
FreediverX@whophd @brianhough @BasicAppleGuy
The ROKR was a case study in why Apple could never build a great phone while partnering with a third party phone maker.
The ROKR was a case study in why Apple could never build a great phone while partnering with a third party phone maker.
@freediverx @brianhough @BasicAppleGuy pouring one out for StarTAC -> V60 -> RAZR -> KRZR V3 ā¦ my entire mobile life in the 2G and 3G eras ā I even went to iPad before I had a 4G smartphone
@whophd @brianhough @BasicAppleGuy
Gotta admit the Razr was a sexy design. Millennial version of the Star Trek communicator.
Gotta admit the Razr was a sexy design. Millennial version of the Star Trek communicator.
Alan Bucknam@BasicAppleGuy I could totally see the rotary dial idea as viable. But, then, I grew up in a house with a rotary dial phone.
Fabien@BasicAppleGuy Are they real Apple concepts or @NanoRaptor ās?
David@BasicAppleGuy Itās neat to see all the designs/ideas *not* chosen.
Jiri Rybar@BasicAppleGuy Iām sure these were internet concepts, not Apple concepts.
Marina Epelman
Will ClarkCan you imagine working at Apple and knowing what the real one looked like and seeing these?!? I couldnāt have stopped myself from making fun of them.
Doug Wilson@BasicAppleGuy Why donāt more people talk about the Motorola Rokr?
I remember watching this keynote live and thinking how unexcited Steve Jobs (and the whole crowd) was acting. It was such a flop.
