e61 – The iPhone at 10

The iPhone was released to the world 10 years ago today. We celebrate a decade of the device that changed the world.

Interviews and articles

• Computer History Museum panel and interview with Scott Forstall
  • Ganatra and Melton on Debug [I II III IV V]
• original iPhone reviewers panel
• Forstall, Fadell, Christer interview
• controversial new book

The iPhone launch and legacy

• big lines at Apple stores
  • Jobs and Forstall at the Palo Alto store
  • a smaller launch event for Jaguar
  • iFixit goes to Australia for the 5s
• Jobs price drop apology letter [WayBack]
• tech the iPhone built on
  • Newton
  • iPod
    • P1 prototype
    • dock connector
• tech the iPhone obsoleted
  • BlackBerry
  • Palm
    • Treo
    • WebOS
      • not dead, it's on a fridge!
  • iPod
• tech the iPhone led the way for
  • multi-touch
    • gestures on the Mac
    • MacBook Pro (Late 2008)
    • Magic Trackpad
  • Launchpad 🚀🙄
  • ¿copycat? Android phones
• the iPhone's worldwide impact
  • autocorrect fails
  • Apps
    • "App" voted American Dialect Society Word of the Year for 2010
      • Ed was there!
    • Apple sold apps for click-wheel iPods!
      • they weren't always good.
    • "There's an app for that"
    • $70B to developers
  • Siri
    • other voice assistants
    • Her
  • flat design

e60 – Everything Old is New Again

The announcements made at WWDC 2017 reminded us of a lot of classic Mac technologies, in name, design, and function.

Follow Up

• Ed on Mac Power Users #380
• new additions to Internet Archive Mac emulation
• Apple museum visits
  • Jake Bordens at Apple Museum Prague
  • Stephen and Ticci at the Computer History Museum
  • functioning Apple I sold at auction
• Pomona prototype recreated by Jeff Rule

WWDC 2017 announcements

• macOS High Sierra
  • High Sierra Format
  • ISO 9660
  • optical media extensions in Mac OS 9
• Drag and Drop
  • in iOS 11
  • origin on the Mac
  • Gravité
  • Drag and Drop extension
• The Dock
  • NeXTSTEP dock and shelf
• Handwriting recognition
  • Newton
  • Ink
  • with Apple Pencil
• Control center

Control Center be like pic.twitter.com/MXWbRSzBeT

— Collin Allen (@command_tab) June 5, 2017

• Mac input devices
  • Magic Keypoard with Numeric Keypad
  • Apple Extended Keyboard
  • iMac Pro space grey peripherals
  • Apple Pro Mouse
  • Apple Pro Keyboard