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Originally Posted by dglow
I think of the difference between the OG iPhone (2007) and the iPhone 4s. The experience was night & day. Compared to the original, the 4s sported a retina display, had performance to burn (first dual-core CPU), and an industrial design considered among the iPhone's finest.
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Yeah. The 3GS also added video, and the 4 added a front-facing camera. (That's right: selfies were flat-out impossible in the first three iPhones. Hard to believe from today's perspective.)
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Originally Posted by dglow
So, sure, if Apple had only waited five years they could have wowed with world with the speedy, beautiful, steel & glass 4s instead of the pokey, soapbar-like original iPhone.
But then, if they'd waited all that time they might not have delivered the 4s at all. And in that time Android could very well have run away with the market, but ¯\_(ツ)_/¯.
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Yup.
Steve knew when to ship. iPhone 2G / iOS 1.0 was mocked for not having copy & paste, 3G, etc., but people were missing the point: Apple had built a platform upon which they could iterate fast. Meanwhile, Nokia's/Blackberry's/Microsoft's lead turned out to be temporary, because they were much slower to iterate.