BorgDrone

It’s annoying because it’s slow. It’s constantly buffering where the real youtube just instantly starst playing.

So when you get close to an explosive barrel your character stops responding to the left stick?

I’ll try it out tonight but I can’t remember ever encountering that behavior.

Original youtube link?

Can someone make a bot that converts these piped links into real youtube links, because they are highly annoying.

Are you in turn based mode?

I don’t get the problem. Why not just walk away?

Are you indexing your fingers or counting them ?

Indexing starts ar 0 but counting starts at 1.

Yeah no. The iPhone looks nothing like an iPod, and no one else predicted anything like the iPhone. But hey, you obviously thought of it.

Even the people working on Android at that time had nothing like it. Initially Android was going to be a lot like a Blackberry. They had to go back to the drawing board after the iPhone announcement. What a shame that Google didn't have a brilliant mind like you working for them, they could have saved all that time and money and worked on the 'obvious' design from day one.

LOL no it wasn’t.

Sure, the idea of an apple phone had been out there for a while, but the actual device wasn’t obvious at all. Just look at all the speculation before the event, people making mockups of what they thought the iPhone would look like. Just look at the industry reactions afterwards.

For example, the reaction of blackberry founder Mike Lazaridis

Or the reaction from the people at Google working on Android

It was absolutely revolutionary at the time. The fact that the way it works seems obvious after the fact is testament to how good and revolutionary it actually was. We can’t even imagine things working differently anymore, but it was only obvious after it was revealed.

These people aren’t pro anything specific, they just get off on causing as much suffering as possible. They are pure evil.

It was absolutely a revolution.

The relevant definition of revolution: “a dramatic and wide-reaching change in conditions, attitudes, or operation.”

It didn’t matter if the technology already existed, hardly anyone was using it. Capacitive touchscreens existed, but there was no dramatic change, they were just used in the same way as resistive touchscreens. It was a different way of building a touchscreen, but very much an evolutionary change.

The iPhone was a revolution because it caused a dramatic and almost overnight change in the industry. What techies usually fail to see it that technology doesn’t matter. What matters is how it is used and what it allows people to do.

There is no such thing as ‘lightning speed’. It’s just a connector, not a data communication standard. The non-pro iPhone 15 uses the same SoC as last year’s pro models, which happens to have an USB 2.0 controller. The new SoC used in the 15 Pro models have a 10 gbit USB 3.0 controller on board.

Doesn’t mean the iPhone wasn’t revolutionary.

I was (and still am) a mobile app developer at the time. We had every major phone on the market in our office for testing purposes. Literally hundreds of different phones. You name any popular (and less popular) phone on the market at that time and I can guarantee you I’ve used it extensively.

The iPhone was absolutely revolutionary. However, it wasn’t because of a specific piece of technology, it was execution.

Symbian touch-screen phones existed, they were slow and laggy. The UI was nothing like the iPhone, which is built around directly manipulating UI elements with your finger. It seems obvious now, but back then it wasn’t. You could use the touch screen to manipulate a tiny scrollbar.

The closest thing to the iPhone was the LG Prada (KE850), which had a capacitive touch screen and the same scrolling mechanism as iPhone. However, it was small, had a tiny screen and was relatively slow. The software was also very limited, it was basically a feature phone, not a smartphone.

The iPhone was basically the first phone that got all of it right.