Nokia's Day-After iPhone Analysis Proved Eerily Accurate

Nokia accurately predicted the iPhone would revolutionize the smartphone industry in a confidential analysis prepared the day after Apple unveiled the device in 2007, according to internal documents recently released by Nokia's Design Archive at Aalto University in Finland.

The presentation praised the iPhone's touchscreen interface and recognized Apple's unprecedented control over carrier relationships, though it misjudged the importance of web browsing and Java support.

Colligan and Malda on the other hand:

[greytree]

Ed Colligan on the Iphone, 2006:

“We’ve learned and struggled for a few years here figuring out how to make a decent phone,” he said. “PC guys are not going to just figure this out. They’re not going to just walk in.”

and of course Rob Malda on the Ipod, 2001:

  “No wireless. Less space than a nomad. Lame.”

buttons

[awwshit]

Buttons will make a come back at some point. It might take some kind of tactile touch screen, where buttons sort of appear and disappear as needed.

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[darkain]

We "abandoned" them because there was literally no upgrade path by any of the vendors.

Given the choice, I'd go back in a heartbeat. I'm sick and tired of literally every word I attempt to type on a touchscreen being wrong, either because the buttons are too damn small, or because some fucked up bullshit "AI" thinks its great to attempt to auto-correct five words back because it doesn't understand the context of what I'm saying.

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[havana9]

It's also because manufacturers aren't willing to put them for costs reasons. It's like on modern cars that have a big touch screen and no physical controls for controlling the heating or the radio, or the disappearance of the SCART connector from TV sets. Manufacturing them costs a bit less but at a greater inconvenience for the customers. And while I concede that people still using a VHS are a minority, people driving in the winter in a foggy night having to control the heating and the fan while driving a

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[WankerWeasel]

LULz, no. Saying this sounds just like the Blackberry guys who INSISTED that the iPhone would fail because it didn't have a physical keyboard.

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[awwshit]

https://www.engadget.com/this-... [engadget.com]

https://www.discovermagazine.c... [discovermagazine.com]

Don't be so sure. I don't mean an always there Blackberry-like keyboard. Touching hard, flat, surfaces sucks.

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[WankerWeasel]

Look at how many keyboards have been offered over the past decade. Not a single one has caught on. You might not like touchscreens but it's incredibly clear that the vast majority of users are perfectly fine with them and are not seeking out a tactile alternative.

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[awwshit]

How many were *seeking* the loss of buttons for a flat surface?

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[WankerWeasel]

At Jobs said, people don't know what they want until you show it to them. As Henry Ford said, "If I'd asked customers what they wanted, they would have told me, 'A faster horse!'"

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[awwshit]

Which is why you don't realize what you really want is buttons that come and go as needed.

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[gnasher719]

I read a less official Blackberry quote about the first iphone: "It is a f***ing computer!"

The social aspects have not been studied enough

[xack]

There's a large amount of obesity, addiction and illegal immigration fuelled by the app economy, we are only 18 years into the app economy, who knows what it will be like in another 50 with more enshittification and when gen alpha grows into adulthood. The oldest are teenagers, when they get to college age AI will fuck up their higher education really bad and will affect their careers even more then previous gens.

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[sarren1901]

That sure is a nice fancy rosy outlook. More like AI has a very real chance of being why we never really get out of this solar system. AI will be our https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... [wikipedia.org] Great Filter event.

A Burning Platform

[evilcoop]

It did not forestall Nokia’s doom.

“we are standing on a burning platform” - Nokia CEO Stephan Elop - Aug 2011