First Generation Apple Products SUCK - And that's OK
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- Опубликовано: 22 авг 2024
- Apple has a long history of famous and game changing products: The iMac, iBook, iPod, iPhone, MacBook Air, iPad, and Apple Watch to name a few. Despite their reputation for changing the tech industry with revolutionary products, Apple also has a track record for making some glaring errors and omissions. First generation products often have design flaws, lackluster software, and short lifespans. But you know what? That's OK!
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Raise your hand if you've seen Steve Jobs introduce the iPhone on every Apple-related tech youtube channel 😂😂
I know
Not on mine lol 😂
I have watched all Steve Jobs keynotes live except the iPod one.
My hand has been raised
Xd lol me too 😂😂😂😂
Got the iPad 1 at launch. The 256mb of RAM completely killed it.
The iPad 4 launched 2.5years later felt like a 2030 device compared to the 1st gen.
Same - the ram was the real problem. It just crashed constantly. Had they doubled the ram, it would have run well.
Had they put 512MB of RAM in the iPad 1, Apple could have updated it to at least iOS 7.
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Nothing matters as long as it’s “buttery smooth”!😂
I love butter.
No lube
Pea pea nut
2:35 "Steve Jobs was convinced at the time that web apps developed with AJAX and 'Web 2.0' in Safari were the future for expandability"
*looks at Chromebooks*
He was right, just too far ahead of his time.
@Jay Talents he did great for apple now that tim cook is ceo apple has been ruined
@@phantom_wolf5274 I admit they're not innovating as much but apple seems to be doing pretty well under cook too
@@DavidNikkiZane yeah they’re still successful that for sure it’s cuz Tim Cook is greedy
Yeah
A Chromebook is a computer, not a phone.
I feel like apple just releases the first generation as bad as they are to test the waters and get feedback to improve their later generations, why do you think they rarely support the first gens for more than a few years?
And I thought the iPad (and then the iPhone as a result) was born because Steve Jobs got pissed because he was at some dinner party or something and a Microsoft exec was bragging about their tablet so much.
Yeah, seems like it.
I agree! I have always considered the first product of something brand new to be a public beta
Isn't it more because they have to invent everything for the first gen and get to refine everything afterwards? Nobody was making laptops as small as they were (At least the motherboard) before the Air, the iPhone was so new the CPU sucked and it had anemic ram, but after they came out they could more easily develop everything else since they're in the open and people know of the products
Hindsight is 20/20. These 1st gen products can’t be scored on what we know today. When those devices came out, yeah, they has some shortcomings, but they introduced new interfaces and from factors. As other have said, refinement comes down the line. But I owned the first iPhone and it was incredible device, even on Edge and no apps and wallpaper only on the lock screen. It was transformational, and as a user, you can see the path to enhancements and advancements, which Apple delivered.
Yep. I feel his frustration. Some of the computer systems today (that I still use for work) are complete rubbish.
8:18
Fun Fact: Steve first designed iOS to run on the iPad but he kept the iPad Project on hold to release the iPhone.
yep, Apple first experimented with multi touch in the early 2000s Steve quickly decided the technology would be perfect for a cell phone
@@b0nn13_stvrz yup
Your videos are so freaking good - I love how you make up for the limited production capabilities of being a mid-sized college student youtubers with EXCELLENT content and actually insightful information that you can’t get from other channels. I love that!
Wait... luke is a college student?? I thought he was like 28 or domething
Wait hes a college student 😭
My favorite gen 1 product are AirPods, I mean, they are the best pair of headphones ever I love em
Ok battery
Connect fast
Super strong connection
Sound ok
Very durable
I agree they are good, but if you sweat they break lol I live in Florida my boyfriend wore his AirPods to talk on the phone while walking units (he’s a property manager) and you can hear everything just fine but on phone calls no one can hear him it sounds muffled
Yep I was going to say the AirPods and Apple Watch 1 where amazing for first gen devices. My watch lasted me 5 years and I only upgraded last year.
Tom S yeah about that, the same happened to my brother’s AirPods...
So it was because of water damage lol
@@tommys1678 The Pros are sweatproof, which is a huge plus.
But unfortunately, the Pros suffer from *huge* issues that the original AirPods never did...
My original AirPods had no defects. Their batteries are completely shot now about 2.5 years into their life, but they still work (mostly) as intended aside from rare connection issues here and there. My Pros, however, would always begin to fail the ear tip test with all tip sizes, and my left one started giving loud static feedback to my voice whenever I'm using transparency/isolation, and even the replacements had the same issue where both started failing the ear tip test and the left bud started suffering from loud static feedback to my voice while using transparency/isolation (and it's not like they gave me my same pair back, I handed my pair to them as they handed me my new pair). The Pros have major issues and are on the verge of causing Apple to face a class-action lawsuit kind of like the battery-slowing public case that became known in 2017/2018.
TL;DR - The original AirPods are such a good first-generation device, that they are free of issues that later models suffer from.
and uncomfortable
Fun Fact: Developers tried every single combination of apps and function of the iPhone to check if it would crash and wrote it in a book that Steve Jobs used on stage
I know. I saw it in Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson
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luke: ' all apple first gen products suck,'
M1 Macs: ' am i a joke to you,'
I think he means more of the radical totally new and unheard of products. The M1 Macs don't really fall into this category because they just stuck their more powerful and efficient M1 chip into an already successful Mac model. And it works very well.
Love my 1st gen airpods ❤️
Me too 😊
And my iPhone 7 and MacBook Air 2020 😊
I just ordered the MB Air M1 and cannot wait to find its limits.
@@unboxings5218 none of those are first gen
@@heeheeriah Ik I’m just saying I love my other apple products to 😂
Even knowing this I’ll be buying one of the first Apple silicon macs
I don’t know if their new ARM chip applies, since it’s not really their first. However, I’d wait for a few revisions of Apple Glass.
Yes, me too.
Same!! The rumored MacBook SE would be a dream for my Highschool work (which is web based) and I’ll be going into my junior year so then once I’m out of highschool in 2 years if the transition goes to plan the Apple Silicon will be a 100% finished and ready for college!
I will as well. I am in the market for a new one and I waited long enough for this year's MPA and MPB offerings. But the chance for a (perhaps) October release -- October being a common month for releases in the past -- has me wanting to wait a few months more.
If you rock a 5+ yr old Mac and need an upgrade to just do editing and such......the last Intel MacBook isn’t a bad machine to wait out the Arm revisions drama on......that’s what I’m literally banking on myself. A new Arm Mac may get 20 hrs battery & walk on water but it’s the unforeseen issues I’d rather skip while I watch Apple run around like clowns getting out of a new clown car to patch, fix, or spin it as a “feature.”
Last I checked, my private finances weren’t budgeted for beta-testing unproven tech at the prices they charge.
Very true. Would be wise to avoid 1st Gen apple silicon macs unless you’re a baller of course.
Will this video apply to first gen Apple silicon devices?
2020 sucks I don’t think so, I think they will be pretty optimized machines since Apple has been working on their own chips for years
Don’t avoid the Apple silicon it’s based on the a12 chip and everyone loves the iPad Pro and air and mini
Apple silicon is the a12x or a12z in a macbook
It’s not wise to avoid the Apple silicon chips
The answer, wait till version 2.0? I wait with bated breathe for the Apple Car, will it beat Tesla? Or do we wait for Apple car 2.0?
All the first gen products were really revolutionary and amazing. Were they perfect? No. Did they get better over time? Absolutely.
All the other manufacturers scrambled to produce anything remotely as good and still struggle today.
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First gen airpower was really bad at release....oh wait we never got it 😂
1:58min. when the 4GB RAM were printed on the back of an iPhone. Oh wait...
it is 4GB storage, how can the first gen iPhone has the same RAM as the iPhone 11 Pro
@@ItzDatMC Sarcasm, my friend. The "Oh wait..." was his way of making it obvious that he was being sarcastic.
They were okay at the time
Oh, First Comment!
I think we’re feeling defensive partly because of his tone... no offense to him but it sounds like he thinks he can do a better job than Apple does for a first gen product. Maybe it’s because we’re fans of Apple
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They were more than ok... they were brilliant.
Agreed. But: I don't believe it's right to generalise Apple fans complain about 'Apple not jumping on the latest trends fast enough' while on the other hand 'complain about first generation product blunders'. There are a good portion who would want to have Apple release products ONLY when they are properly and fully vetted!
And. At this point: Computers, lap tops, smart phones and tablets have already been invented unlike the first days of actually inventing the products. Companies like Apple have no excuses to release flawed "new generations" of the same products types.
Intel and ARM are architectures that have been widely used and Apple should do its homework and vetting BECAUSE of this 'new generation'.
We pay plenty for their products. No excuses!
AirPods were perfect.
And they still are.
Sound-wise, they really weren't. But they're pretty good now.
Warlock M the first AirPods was made to replace the EarPods that comes with your phone. They wasn’t going for the best sound, base and loudness. They were made for conversations and some music. They were a lil too expensive forgeât they do though. I hate le when RUclipsrs were comparing them to Bose and galaxy earbuds.
@@shuggfilmzandstudio2354 makes sense when you consider price
@@mrcia2129 yep, in my country, the galaxy buds is just about $75, which is an ultimate steal for an samsung product
“Who’s gonna carry around a 3rd screen”
Me with my phone, iPad, laptop, and desktop
The answer is: Wait until the “4th Gen”:
Apple Watch 4
iPhone 4
iPad 4
...
Apple Glasses 4
Alessandro Neiva you're holding it wrong (also 3GS 4Life)
Is there a 6th gen apple watch
Core Studio not yet
Nah wait till the 3rd model.
Apple Watch Series 3 (still being sold)
iPhone 3G/3GS (didn’t have crippling antenna issues)
iPad 3 (Bit slow and iffy but workable (?))
MacBook Pro 3rd Gen/Retina (what many consider to be the golden age of MacBooks)
who can wait that long! take my money!!
This video gives interesting subtext to the first ARM Apple computers.
Please note that early iPhones use Samsung chipset.
I bought an 8 Plus instead of an X in 2017, and I bought a 16" MacBook Pro after Apple Silicon was announced. As much as people enjoy romanticizing about the first-gen "ooh shiny" effect, I prefer buying a product based on tried and true design, rather than hopping on an expensive beta test program. I don't mind keeping my equipment for 4+ years until all of the kinks are worked out.
I cannot wait until they're first ARM Macbook comes out.
12:25 Sometimes they admit mistakes... just look at Services
1stGen = MobileMe
2ndGen = iCloud
Again 1st Gen sucked (so hard they even had to rename it!) but at least they admited it when introducing 2ndGen...
MobileMe is not first generation, .Mac is first generation
I live for transitions like the one at 4:52
Imagine if someone had been like this about the 2013 Mac Pro.
I waited until about a month ago to get my new 16 inch Macbook pro for this exact reason, well worth the wait and every penny
8:56 this is still the case today, even with apps from major companies. Instagram, PayPal, Snapchat...
Instagram and Snapchat are mobile apps, the developers behind them will prefer to keep the same iPhone aspect ratio. A redesigned iPad App would look awful and stretched out for social media, PayPal have no excuse though.
I think saying Apple's first gen devices are bad is a bit disingenuous. They're almost always significantly better than competing products even on first gen, they only look bad in comparison.
Like steve jobs said, apple doesn't make junk. Sure, the MacBook air was compromised, but it wasn't inherently bad experience, especially vs the netbooks of the day. The idea of the MacBook air was ultimately the right one, nobody wants a compromised and bad product like netbooks, a well built thin and light was the way to go. Not cheap enough? The iPad does everything you'd do on a netbook but better, even in it's early iteration.
Tbh, *who would carry 3 devices* hurts my soul cuz I'm that person lol
I hugely feel this way about the first-generation Apple Watch. No smartwatch had a higher screen resolution or could access half as many apps as the original Apple Watch could.
Moreover, I actually miss the days of the first-gen Apple Watch, as there are so many app developers that deleted their apps over time. I do love my Apple Watch series 5, but I really miss having dedicated Twitter app, Instagram app, and SoundCloud app, as they provided functionality that the WatchOS iPhone notification passthrough feature doesn't make up for with Twitter/Instagram, and that the WatchOS Now-Playing app doesn't make up for with SoundCloud.
Not to mention, WatchOS 1 and Watch OS 2 had more attractive UI across the board with transparency effects and 60fps animations for everything, while WatchOS 3 and 4 got rid of Siri's transparency effects, reduced the waveform to 15fps, and got rid of voice-feedback animations for it, completely butchering the fluidity of the Apple Watch 0 and Series 1/2/3. Even today with WatchOS 5 and 6 on the Apple Watch Series 4/5, while Siri got back its 60fps, voice-feedback-animated waveform, its all still on a solid-black screen with no blurred watch-face/app behind it. The Apple Watch launched in 2015 feeling closer to a micro iOS device than the 2019 Apple Watch Series 5 feels.
So, what does this mean for the 1st generation Macs with Apple Silicon coming soon?
What happened to your camera focus Luke? Anyways great discussion. I will always read and research for weeks or months before buying tech. Waiting always is good for decisions.
I agree, I loved my first gen iPad but it only got 2 years of support iOS 3-5 and the iPhone 4 had the same A4 chip and got iOS 7. It's a shame the iPad only had 256mb of ram
As you mentioned, it’s about the RAM memory. Not because of it being a first gen product, as is suggested in the video
MacBook Air transition at 4:53 is just epic 👏👏👏
The introduction of the iPhone is for me like it was yesterday! I remember being glued at my PowerMac G5 watching the live videostream! Where has time gone?
I miss the old Steve presentations. They were presentations. The current Apple events seem more like glorified advertisements. He had much more swagger when unveiled something.
I'm a teacher and musician and one of my students just gifted me an iPad 1, no 3G and only 16GB.
She gave it to me because I had told her I'm still using two really old macbooks only for music making and sometimes online lessons.
I'm happy with this old iPad. I've been using it as an guitar amp sim, gaming, etc.
Despite this thing is really old and obsolete, you can have lots of fun with it if you are curious enough to see and learn what it can do.
The first gen AirPods is as good as the 2nd gen to be honest 👀. The sound quality is identical even though we get some more features on the 2nd one
3:00 How can you make a phone with an app store if the concept of app store wasn't invented yet?
There were app-stores on other phones, mostly for Symbian and Windows CE based phones.
@@superhavi Well I remember the Ovi store, Symbian app store, but that came out after the app store, in 2010 according to wikipedia. I don't remember any store type for Windows CE. I'm sure you could sideload applications on WinCE but I think the concept of app store pretty much gets the most traction after it was used as we use it today on the iphone.
To this day I find Razr to be the most amazing mobile phone ever made.
@@b0nn13_stvrz tf?
The people that can afford to buy revolutionary/experimental hardware are the same ones that can afford to replace them
Apple is a company. They always don't know exactly what they are doing.
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I’m still using the first Apple Watch everyday and it is ok 😅😉
The first iPad mini was one of the worst Apple products ever 🙈
The first iPad was fine, but received little updates...
The first AirPods are very good and I use them everyday for work and for music 😊
It hurts to type this on the first gen mini
The first iPad mini was great! I owned one in 2012
And still have it
The iPhone 3GS is a great looking iPhone. Have Steve Jobs saw the future of the iPhones after the iPhone 4s iOS 5.
You buy a Gen 1 Apple product to buy a slice of the future. The first iPad was glorious, I don't care what you say.
Third generation butterfly keyboard still sucked...
That intro though!
Thanks for the insight. Trying to decide whether to wait for a new portable or (actually) buy a used "best in class" MacBook Pro. Looks like I should wait a bit and see what happens.
Same
I remember getting an iPad 1 and using the crap out of it mostly RUclips and Minecraft the gummy bear song and not knowing how chests work in Minecraft stick out because survival didn’t work in PE originally
I miss Steve.
The butterfly keyboard is one of the prime examples of a faulty product and Apple still hasn't said sorry.
I lived through the era of iOS without a file manager. It was hard!
Amazing that the M1 Macs are actually incredible, although to be fair Apple has already had a lot of experience designing their own chips through nearly all their other product lineups.
I remember when the initial iPad came out. I was shopping for a more portable device. I looked at the iPad and thought the design was cool but thought overall it wasn’t anything close to wat I was looking for. I ended up going the netbook route.
is it just me, or does the 1st gen iPad still looks incredibly sexy?
Agreed
The 1st gen Ipad is surprisingly good for watching movies offline. The OS takes up way less storage which means you can get further on a 64gb first gen ipad than you can on a newer 64gb ipad. Couple that with weaker chips, discontinued network features, and a lower resolution screen and you have far lower power draw and surprisingly beefy battery life
love that your branching out from MacBooks and iMacs
About the things missing on the first iPhone, you forgot: 3G connectivity (yeah), modem to other phones, bluetooth, file transfer to computer, memory expansion, flash on the camera, MMS (send or receive), ability to choose your carrier, an app store, games, text in landscape.
I know this video is two years old but there is a few points to note, firstly a trillion dollars in the bank can buy a lot of talent, secondly it’s not unrealistic or unreasonable to expect Apple to get it right first time and lastly, the points you make Luke forms a caveat about buying first Generation Apple products, I have never been or will be a fanboy and it took 12 iterations of the iPhone before I finally opted to buy one , the last Apple desktop I used was back in 1987 and the one I went on to buy was in 2019. I’ve always thought that once iPhone and iPad were released they were behind the curve - I did own a second generation iPad then due to it’s underwhelmingness I didn’t go for another until 2022. So it won’t come as surprise to you that I won’t be first in line to buy an Apple wearable- maybe in 5-10 years time or maybe not at all. I find Apple price strategy borderline extortionate and in order to get anything close to what I expect I have to spend massive sums of money to get it, and I’m still a bit disappointed thereafter. Apple are not the worst tech company and they definitely do get things wrong but to repeat: a trillion dollars buys a lot of talent so why is it so unrealistic and unreasonable to expect them to get their product right first time?
It's funny how the original iPad 32GB Model from 2010 costed $599, but the 32GB iPad 7 from 2019 costs $329.
Is the new Razer blade stealth a 13 inch MacBook Pro killer
Camera quality looks extra crispy in this one 👌🏼
The first gen was specifically designed to be upgraded year over year duh.
I still have mint condition 1st gen iPad running iOS 3 and iPhone running iPhoneOS 1.
The first gen iPad was killed because of its lack of RAM. It had only 256MB compared to the iPhone 4 which used the same A4 SOC, but included 512MB of RAM. That gave the iPhone 4 much more longetivity,
I loved the way you described the 12 inch MacBook. 😂
I've had enough experience with Apple that I wait for much later iterations. I waited for the iPod 5th gen, the iPhone 4, the iPad Pro 9.7, and I'm hoping Apple Watch Series 6 is the one.
Why isn't series 5 'the one'? It's awesome
The apple Watch has been on point since gen 3 and 4.
I love my 1st generation ipad. Still have it. It's slow as crap and only good for watching movies on it at this point but it was money well spent 10 years ago.
They dont admit mistakes but is not like they go the opposite way and constantly state “this wasnt a mistake, we are proud of butterfly keyboard” or something.. so I wouldn’t criticize that part, which company does go publicly state their mistakes?
Sometimes I don’t think that it’s because they don’t know what they’re doing on their first gen products. They also have to leave off features for the second ,third and so on versions. They’ll get to the faster chip or the slimmer model. Along the way,they’ll get better. But you can’t put all your best features on one device.,especially if it’s the first gen version. You have to spread it throughout different models.
slap some flex tape on it and it will be fine
I wouldn’t say they “sucked”. A better description would be that they aged poorly compared to what we have today. This technology was so new at the time, their products were highly experimental to see what their audience reactions would be. Nothing like them had ever been seen before in the market and Apple wasn’t going to go all in with features and design for a product that is more of a proof of concept. Brand new inventions are usually never perfect in their first iteration. After a company realizes receives feedback on their products, a smart company would continue to innovate and refine their products to make it even better, improve quality of usability based on user feedback and reducing manufacturing costs. A good company will continue to innovate their products by thinking outside the box. Staying stagnant with your products for too long will lose public interest. Not every first attempt is a home run. How many times did it take to make the lightbulb? And light bulbs have only gotten brighter and more efficient with time. New technology comes out and it is always a risk if it will stick with the public’s interest.
How can you ship an iPhone without an App Store? What was the App Store? Not many people had the idea of downloading apps on a device so that wasn’t a problem to them.
I think you forgot the part when the first gen ipod nanos caught fire and they all had to be recalled
Only a batch. I bought two, and they still work flawlessly to this day
The original MacBook Air was also slow due to its PATA interface for the hard disk. The late 2008 model had SATA but still used 4200rpm drives.
One could argue that most first gen products suck, not just those released by Apple. But it very easy to highlight a product's shortcomings with the benefit of hidsight rather than judge them in the context of what they offered at the time of release. E.g. so what if you couldn't set a wallpaper on the original iPhone, it was doing so many other things that at the time were amazing and people didn't even know they wanted wallpaper 😉 Great video though.
What’s bad on calendar app on the iPad?
1st gen iPad was awesome. I spent hours in the virtual grilling app, flipping virtual burgers.
First Intel iMac was quickly dropped from support for not being 64-bit.
And the original iMac came with a horrible mouse and the IR port was not able to establish a stable connection with my phone.
the watch series 1 is the worst, got mine and after 2 years the battery died and now all the acids are inside it, i keep it just as a memory of my 1st iWatch... bought a 2nd hand MB Pro mid-2012, worst thing ever, 1 week later the gpu died and kept giving kernel panic... now i have trust issues and don't know if it's worth buying a macbook again as i just it for photography
I have an IPad 2 today, we got it in America cos it was cheaper than in England and we still have it. It's barely used anymore because everyone just uses their phones
“We don’t like netbooks”
Literally 2 years later: makes an 11” MacBook Air that could be considered as a netbook
At least the 11 inch MacBook is good. I own one and its wayyy better than my ASUS netbook which can't even browse tge internet
MacBook Air was not a netbook.
The macbook air had been released 2 years before at that time, so not considered as a netbook
Liquid Mark minus the price, if you put the MacBook Air 11” next to like an HP or Dell Mini, you’d class them the same
And the 12” MacBook was more netbook-y than ever.
still have the 1st gen ipad with the box, hated that thing
Apple TV -> Apple TV 2, PowerMac G4 Cube -> Mac Mini, Mobile Me -> iCloud, Original iMac mouse -> 2nd gen iMac mouse
Steve: We don’t offer stripped down, lousy products.
Tim, right next to Steve: HOW ‘BOUT I DO IT ANYWAY
M1 Macs: Allow us to introduce ourselves
The 1998 first iMac was quite good though. It was probably one of the best initial Apple products. They were still in use many years later.
the first song threw me so hard I thought I was watching a European history documentary
You know what, the first cars sucked, the first bicycles sucked, the first airplanes sucked, the first computers sucked, the first phones sucked. In fact, every single everything sucked if you look at the current level of refinement and then make a somewhat absurd charge that the the public were used to "beta test" products. I had the first generation iPhone. No, it's incomparable to modern iPhones, but it hardly sucked in comparison to the alternatives of the time.
Apple admitted that they messed up with the 2012 Mac Pro with the thermal core, with technology not going the way it wanted to. It was designed for dual GPUs, but technology went into putting all the power into a single card, which meant that they couldn't update it.
All in all, I'd rephrase what you said about them not admitting their mistakes as "rarely admit to making mistakes".
I have to buy a new macbook because I‘m starting Uni this fall and was kinda torn between waiting for Apple silicone or buying an intel one. But now my mind is kinda made up... I don‘t want to wait for a laptop that may or may not be worse than the ones they are currently selling... also I‘m kinda getting fed up with my 2009 mac mini (surprise surpise lol) that can‘t even run zoom
I, too, will be buying an ARM right with you. I have a 2009 iMac that I use at home for basic tasks but I do have a Chromebook for teaching that my school district provides me, so I don't HAVE to get a new MBP right now. So I figured I'd wait until the release in perhaps October and see how the initial reviews were.
I usually don’t adopt first gen Apple products, not willing to do the bleeding edge and pay the premium when a vastly superior product is usually available next year/year after which works out a lot of the kinks.
First iPad was iPad 2,
Didn’t join the Apple camp for phones till sometime later, has iPhone 5 as my first and then been with them ever since, tried Symbian, Android and Windows Phone for a bit.
Same thing with Apple Watch jumped in the 2nd year with Apple Watch Series 1.
I was waiting for Dual Core on the devices to enable faster performance.
Would only consider first-gen at a significant discount and knowing what I was getting into.
I did buy the 2015 MacBook 12", it did exactly what I wanted, a light device that runs MacOS.
First wireless ear buds from Apple I got was the Air Pods Pro.
It really is about what you are looking for in terms of functionality.
This is a good thing to remember as we get closer to the AR/VR headset coming out.
It's gonna suck. AT FIRST, before subsequent revs come out.
Still wishing they would bring back the ol 12 inch macbook. Maybe with an M1 or M2 chip and a proper keyboard. As a writer i loved the Netbook era because I would keep one in my purse to have a tiny device with a real keyboard that i could just whip out and type up some prose when the inspiration struck. For years i used an adorable pink Sony Viao P netbook that is no larger or heavier than a regular womans wallet. Had to keep it limping along well past its lifetime with various flavors lf lightweight linux and would still use it today were it not for me finding and buying a GPD P2 Max that is also easily able to slip into my purse.
Like, I know people will say to just use a tablet or even the new base model ipad with a keyboard folio but its just not as comfortable or universally useable without a desk with thoae floppy back stands.
The title is somewhat true, I read that in Tim Cook’s biography too, normally Apple devices become a trend in the third year or version, it happened with iPhone, iPod, iPad and Apple Watch. There are some exceptions like the AirPods that were a success from the very beginning.
I still own many of these products 🤣 Is gen 1 perfect - no. But many of the issues were software based and got improved with updates and upgrades. And they make great hand me downs for the kids. Gen 1 iPhone and iPad are still kicking here - built like tanks and held up to kid abuse. I swear our iPad is on iOS 6, but it’s too hot to go look.
I continue to upgrade these devices - I find iPad releases me from my desktop more than a laptop. I’ve gotten 8 great years from iMac 2011 because of iPad (and strategic upgrades).
I’ve done the MacBook/monitor thing and probably will again when the Apple Silicon 13/14 releases. Working from home is making a laptop look more attractive for now, but I’ll probably only use it until the AS iMac ships. Luckily Apple laptops hold their value quite nicely.
If you think about it the iPhone 3GS was the first 'refined' iPhone