Emmanuel Godwin
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So i saw this question that was asked on Quora, so i decided to raise the question here to see what's people opinion about it.
Like what do you think will be Steve Jobs reaction if he saw or sees what smart phones are slowly becoming nowadays, especially from the slight cold tech war that is slowly building up from the parts of Huawei and Samsung. Like if he was alive to see foldable smart phones, what do you think would have been his reaction towards it..
And here is one of the best answers that was posted on Quora.
"My personal guess is, he would be deeply unimpressed. Jobs always strived for perfection. Those are thick devices with large batteries, huge adapters, square screens when unfolded (which make no sense for most applications) and frail plastic protection over the hinge which risk shattering if exposed to low temperatures. The first uses stock Android and the other two sport minor adjustments.
Remember that, when touch screens for mobile devices appeared in 2000, Jobs refused to make a Mac with that technology, arguing that it made no sense to use a finger to interact with a user interface built for the mouse. (Microsoft did try to market a Windows variant for those devices, but people hated them). Jobs had Apple engineers rethink the OS X operating system until it shone for finger input. It took five years. Instead of marketing that, he told those engineers to make it fit in a small form factor and add a cellular circuitry. The iPhone was thus born in 2007.
While we are at it, also remember that Jobs insisted for glass over the iPhone’s screen.
Now, we know that Corning (the makers of Gorilla Glass) are working on a crystal which can be made as thin as a tenth of a millimeter and can be rolled into a cylinder five millimeters in diameter. That’s where he would probably put his time, his money and his men."
Source - Quora.
Like what do you think will be Steve Jobs reaction if he saw or sees what smart phones are slowly becoming nowadays, especially from the slight cold tech war that is slowly building up from the parts of Huawei and Samsung. Like if he was alive to see foldable smart phones, what do you think would have been his reaction towards it..
And here is one of the best answers that was posted on Quora.
"My personal guess is, he would be deeply unimpressed. Jobs always strived for perfection. Those are thick devices with large batteries, huge adapters, square screens when unfolded (which make no sense for most applications) and frail plastic protection over the hinge which risk shattering if exposed to low temperatures. The first uses stock Android and the other two sport minor adjustments.
Remember that, when touch screens for mobile devices appeared in 2000, Jobs refused to make a Mac with that technology, arguing that it made no sense to use a finger to interact with a user interface built for the mouse. (Microsoft did try to market a Windows variant for those devices, but people hated them). Jobs had Apple engineers rethink the OS X operating system until it shone for finger input. It took five years. Instead of marketing that, he told those engineers to make it fit in a small form factor and add a cellular circuitry. The iPhone was thus born in 2007.
While we are at it, also remember that Jobs insisted for glass over the iPhone’s screen.
Now, we know that Corning (the makers of Gorilla Glass) are working on a crystal which can be made as thin as a tenth of a millimeter and can be rolled into a cylinder five millimeters in diameter. That’s where he would probably put his time, his money and his men."
Source - Quora.
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