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got calm I and I am British as you can tell by the action
and that not only means that I speak better than everybody else but also
means but I love to complain
is probably one of my favorite things in the world so every Monday from now I am
going to be complaining about something and this week
I will be talking about this guy this
is the original iPhone and while many will talk about how amazing it has been
for the smartphone industry and their houses revolutionized a lot of the ways
we think about mobile phones when we think
about smartphones we see a specific form factor we see a big screen
a rectangular shape have a relatively large device compared to what used to
exist before it in terms of feature phones
and other styles affairs now I've spent my last four years covering Apple but
one thing I caught fail
to see you from looking at the way the smartphone market has changed ever since
this fine was announced everything looks the same now
everything does if I look back to when I started working
in phone retail about nine years ago now
the phone shop was also the iPhone has standardized
the rectangular design before the iPhone that was all sorts of crazy shapes and
sizes you had
really cool flip phones like the Motorola RAZR v3
you had slide up phones like the Samsung the 500 you have light little jack knife
in
spinning around the phones you have even rainy
really of fashion accessory style phones like the Siemens early free range which
with the weirdest things
in the world and they have buttons in different places in
in sort of formats that you didn't recognize at first and things like
the Nokia n93 that looked like a mini Handycam that USADA pulled the screen
now and payment today and held it like it camcorder
there was also serve really cool hardware designs going on back then and
now
what do we have we have this that's it
in the olden days phone stalls is like going into a giant candy shop with
shells full
of different colors and sizes and shapes
I'm it was also for a grown-up for you can really have the same feeling going
into a candy store in the mall so for a grown up in those days going up its were
folks always kinda like the nearest thing
especially if you're into technology sure most people would walk into those
phone
stalls and come out with the Hershey's chocolate milk paw
but now all you get is Hershey's milk chocolate
in different sizes essentially but it's not like
design and creativity has disappeared
altogether it's just moved to a less obvious place
on the phone at the back look at the current iPhone 5s it's a flat back
and it has aluminum and glossy look at the Galaxy S five it so love this weird
band-aid effect on the HTC One inmates
you got a solid chunk of metal has been brushed a look and feel really nice and
the LGG to as got the buttons all on the back
and so they can I have to be a bit creative us to the back of the phone
for everything else kinda looks the same it's just a rectangle with the screen on
the hardware creativity may have gone but there is other creativity in
other areas which I guess we can kind of thank the iPhone 4
well once they lost the App Store I'm because phones these days have really
high resolutions great quality LCD and I'm a light panels
we have some really cool creative stuff going on
in the software world and I guess that's kinda where the creativity is gone too
now we've got great games great
ups they look fantastic they work well and
the platforms in general are just coming on in leaps and bounds and while we may
not see different shapes and sizes on form factors of phones ever again
at least we getting some fantastic software to load on them
but I do really miss the days when you would walk into a store
and you would see all these different ways of moving phones and persons in
all these different shapes not something I really really miss
about the mobile phone market because it's what kind of got me excited about
it in the first place was out there was so much variety
thought you could gain something different
from and everything it was awesome and I had quite a few with the
weird ones too and they were great what do you think
do you like the fact that every phone kinda looks the same now
do you think about the benefits all the iPhone having been released in 2007 a
far greater
than me and my little moan about the fact that I wish there was lots of
different sizes colors and shapes on form factors
and stuff let me know in the comments all you can get me on twitter
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