Nintendo Wii: Sold like gangbusters.
64bit Processors: The computing standard.
Battlestar Galactica: Considered one of the greatest sci-fi series of all time.
Facebook: Continues to be the world’s leading social media platform by literally BILLIONS of users.
High Definition: HD only got even more HD.
iPhone: Set the standard for mobile smartphone form factor and function to this day 16 years later.
Jesus, tell me you are a fanboy without telling me you are one.
They made marketing teams to believe we only should be using the huge screen model, that was what they changed to the world and liking it is subjective.
There were alternatives to using other brands and models, not having an iPhone was not a big deal and was mostly sold to people who wanted to show off or enjoyed the advantage of using it inside their Apple systems.
Steve Jobs was a damn good seller, he sold hype and people swallowed it whole, but as far as real innovation with the iPhone… not really.
I feel like the world used flip phones and used their phones exclusively for talking and texting. Blackberries were rare and browsing the internet on them was awful. The original iPhone kickstarted a paradigm shift of how phones were viewed. Now they’re computers and we do everything from ours phones.
They made our lives way easier, and they made our lives awful. And it’s all because of touch screen phones that became so demanded because the release of the iPhone and Steve Jobs skills at selling it.
I’m not saying in any way that iPhones are better than android phones, I’m saying the iPhone is what started this shift in how we live our lives.
Edit to say that you have the big screen thing backwards and I wonder your age and if you lived through that change. Apple tried to convince everyone that the original iPhones screen was big enough, then they increased it to 5” because androids phones were growing… it took Apple years longer Samsung and LG to make these huge screens.