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[–] [email protected] 19 points 4 months ago (3 children)

it's so depressing if you watch steve jobs introduce the iphone, he boasted how safari offered a rich browsing experience, beautifully rendering the full desktop version with intuitive controls to zoom and swipe around, no janky mobile sites. and look at us now. how we have fallen.

(honestly i think tim cook wrecked the company, he's a pure bloodless businessman, thinking only about numbers and value extraction versus innovation and changing the world, which jobs, for all his faults, objectively did)

[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 months ago

This was a choice by Steve Jobs for how it is now. This was also the time they were trying to push HTML5 as the future as removing dependency on specialty software. If mostly everything was only needing a website, then it didn't matter what OS you were using. This would help allow iOS and OSX (at the time) be fully compatible against Blackberry and Windows Vista. But then Android got popular and Windows 7 was a major improvement, Linux was growing as well (netbooks, before MS tried to push into that market). Suddenly their push of any device would be on equal footing was not in their favor, so Apple pushed HARD on "There's an app for that" to start the hard lock in of iOS leading to where things are today.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I miss the old days where a macbook came with a bunch of creative apps that kids in the 60s-90s dreamed of.

That innovative creative freedom train is long gone from that company

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

Care to name some of those apps? Genuinely curious, mac computers were (still are) prohibitively expensive and I never knew anyone who had one before the iPhone launched

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago

Both capitalist pigs