We miss you steve
I think nearly the same
If Jobs was still alive, the iPhone would probably about iPhone 12/13 mini size at best. Reason: he wanted a phone that could be mostly one-handed in operation.
The camera mountain on the back would have been flat. Maybe the phone would have been thicker with a better battery but it wouldn’t just bulge out.
It looks so ridiculously huge, the area it takes alone
Steve would have gone with a before making the phones thicker year over year.
An iPhone 15 with the same camera and no bump would be thicker than the iPhone 4
I no chance
I can fit my 14 in jeans with a case on and a card holder on the back just fine. A phone that thick would be an absolute nightmare lmao
I’m not so sure. A phone as thick as the camera hump would be way more unwieldy than you think. And filling it with battery would make it very heavy. If they decided to keep the cameras shallow then the iPhone would be massively behind in camera taking ability.
In Steve’s eyes, we would’ve used iPads for hours of pointless internet browsing, not phones.
Phones would’ve stayed smaller.
Yeah. Steve famously loved making thick and bulky tech products
lol either you want a chonky phone or meh cameras
Lots of stainless steel ;-) He loved the patina look on stainless [ipods]
SS rails never aged well though imo
No I don’t like the look of ss all scratched up either, so I’d slap an ugly car on my beautiful iPod
probably wouldn’t be quite as big
The iPhone would still be 3.5”
unqualified BS
iPhone Aesthetics would be slightly different. No notch and I would guess the camera wouldn’t protrude so the phone can lie completely flat on a table
Nope and nope
lol so no front facing camera and no changes to quality of the cameras.
As if.
If anything. The type of design trends we saw (and largely hated) under Johnny Ive would have continued for longer under Steve.
Phones would likely be thinner and smaller.
Way to take that out of context.
lol so no front facing camera and no changes to quality of the cameras.
That’s really what you took from that statement?
Where does the front facing camera go on an iPhone with no notch and an edge to edge display then?
Underneath the display.
Inb4: “but but no one has executed it well yet”
Yeah, that’s why Apple and Steve Jobs were different. No one had executed touchscreen smartphones well before either.
Yeah. Whatever Apple and Steve want to achieve they just can. Don’t worry about physics and the fact that no one has even presented a demo for perfectly transparent high resolution display.
No one has done it well yet because it literally isn’t possible. You have to significantly compromise the display quality and the camera quality. It’s just not worth it.
Video calling on a phone was impossible too, then smartphones came along.
Do you really think there won’t be any more inventions or innovations that’ll make previously impossible things possible?
I literally had a phone that did video calls before the first iphone was announced iPhone.
Stop bringing up irrelevant examples of innovation.
It might be possible without the kinds of compromises we see now, one day, but not at the moment.
No one even has a million dollar proof of concept example.
He could have it, but different. My best guess is the camera would be more centered on the back, so the iPhone wouldn’t be uneven.
Definitely lots of stainless steel…
No pro/base models, not a bunch of colors. Silver or space gray and probably 2 storage options. No max or mini either
Yeah the iMac g3 was just beige Steve hated colors you’re right lmao
fingerprint reader like on iPads in the power Button, no big noch, probably a teardrop Design, or a notch with better Design. the only good thing about the notch was the unique (but ugly) Design.
i guess the camera bump would be less noticable, maybe not even there, but a bigger battery. USB C would have been there as soon as the iPad had them. no lightning on airpods, this stupid apple pencil thing would never happen. maybe reberse charge from ipad to iphone or iphone to airpods.
They could indeed fill all the space to align the camera with battery. 1 week battery life :)
We can’t know much about what Steve would have done. But he wouldn’t have released iPhones that thicker with subsequent years.
He also wasn’t a stupid man and he would have seen that camera upgrades are what drive iPhone sales.
Smaller I reckon
No unsymmetrical camera bump.
It wouldn’t have an ugly ass notch, that’s for sure.
We still wouldn’t have a frekk’n calculator on the iPad
This is still the only thing I dislike about the iPad. It’s rendered my iMac mostly useless at the moment, but how I wish there was a calculator built into the OS.
Comments here are mostly “Steve wouldn’t have had this thing I didn’t like” - most of them ignoring the drawbacks the iPhones had under Steve. Oh it would’ve been flat on a table? Like the 3G? It would’ve had a headphone jack? Because Stephen famously loved buttons and ports?
I think this is one of those things where people get to air their grievances with iPhone while not actually saying “I personally think (whatever) is terrible.”. They won’t get flamed as bad in the comments because they’re not saying it. They’re saying “It’s what Steve would have wanted.”
Steve was neurotic about certain specific things and it’s impossible to know what would have triggered him in the later iterations of Apple products.