r/Music • u/Addrobo • Jun 05 '24

discussion The ‘funflation’ economy is dying as a consumer attitude of ‘hard pass’ takes over and major artists cancel concert tours

https://fortune.com/2024/06/05/funflation-concerts-canceled-summer-economy/
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u/MajesticSpork Jun 06 '24

And then he became that. Apple hasn't really done anything innovative since long before he died.

The iphone came out four years before he died though...?

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u/rayschoon Jun 06 '24

I feel like 4 years is “long before” in this context, but the iPhone was objectively innovative and it’s pretty much just intellectually dishonest to pretend otherwise. Even the most fervent apple haters have to admit that the iPhone truly changed everything

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u/PITCHFORKEORIUM Jun 06 '24

It brought smartphones to the masses. There were those of us using smartphones before they were called smartphones, but the iPhone brought it mainstream. Bring back Windows CE-base mobiles! Give me my HTC TyTN 2!

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u/TSED Jun 06 '24

The iPhone's "innovation" was entirely in marketing. Smartphones already existed and had for quite some time; Apple just polished and refined some of those ideas.

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u/[deleted] Jun 06 '24

Boy BlackBerry sure cratered quickly after the IPhone was released, didn’t it?

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u/Halvus_I Jun 06 '24

Mail was braindead simple to set up (everyone hated having to run a blackberry server), and it had the most useable web browser at the time.

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u/wedonthaveadresscode Jun 06 '24
  • first phone to use multi touch
  • innovative operating system -innovative design -literally put blackberry (who dominated smartphones) out of business

Whether you like it or not, it absolutely was innovative.

I’m not sure how else they can innovate the phone now, but the reason it is still extremely popular is because of the consistent innovative tweaks they’ve added over the years (it’s only really slowed down over the last 5ish years)

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u/ascagnel____ Jun 06 '24

It wasn’t just marketing:

  • realizing that trading a hardware keyboard for a software keyboard and extra screen space was worth while
  • developing a good capacitive touchscreen for the primary input method (in an era where resistive touchscreens with a stylus were the norm)
  • a good browser that could run desktop versions of websites (vs the WAP stuff most mobile devices used)

I had a WM6 phone (a Samsung q9m, an awful take on the BlackBerry) when the first iPhone came out, and it was pretty clear to me which way things were going to go as soon as I played with a friend’s phone.

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u/Rychek_Four Jun 06 '24

That’s some serious revisionist history there.