I like this prediction too!
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Incredible. We haven't changed much, have we?
So civilised
Cute, they thought that it would only grow in one dimension while in reality it did in two.
Why I prefer this prediction:
They couldn't predict that he wouldn't be around any more by 2012.
I guess people thought "the genius Steve Jobs" wouldn't go a homeopathic route to treat his actually treatable pancreatic cancer
It's so incredibly rare to have a treatable version of pancreatic cancer, normally it's a guaranteed death sentence.
Also he got a liver transplant because having access to a private plane meant he could be on all the lists. Only bought him like another year though.
2016: iFloor
2018: iPiazza
2020: iField
2022: iPrairie
2024: iVeldt
How have I never seen this lol
The Iboard is just a touchscreen Mac.
Reality is disappointing.
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But it also shrank in a third.
I like how at the time we hadn't even considered the entire slab would be a screen, like the memes still have the home button at the bottom. I get that it's a meme but still.
We also probably assumed the headphone jack would never go away either so.
It was my prediction. We've even got ones with a screen that wraps onto the side. A screen on the back side hasn't happened yet, though.
But it's just dumb, so it hasn't caught on.
I hate phones with glass backsides, I've replaced the back of my S20 a dozen times before switching to a phone with a plastic back. Yes it looks nice (if you use it without a cover), but it breaks so easily. It's always super thin glass, not the thick gorilla glass like the front. If you look at it wrong it cracks.
Pixel 5 had a metal back coated with some resin thing. Best phone design in history.
I mean it is kind of dumb, especially if it's as delicate as the front. I was young and I didn't really understand the manufacturing realities. I'm guessing phones will keep looking the same for the next bit, with a slim chance Apple's goggle thing will actually catch on a bit.
Yeah we have. We even had a phone that had an e-paper display on one side for low power usage. Almost all the folding phones have a screen that is on the back when unfolded.
You could argue that folding phones have screens on the back, just not the full thing, and not always the back
My zFold would like a word
I’m not gonna do the math myself, but in terms of total screen size it’s probably pretty close to accurate.
I can fit 24 rows of apps ON MY DICK!
The iPhone Pro Max is a big boy
This is a really great illustration of how mere extrapolation can lead you to shitty conclusions.
This is basically the slippery slope fallacy in a picture.
Make it foldable and it's pretty much exactly what happened.
The 10 didn't get that far, but the current biggest phone is not much smaller. Just wider instead of taller.
https://i.ytimg.com/vi/Ucl5w-bztkk/maxresdefault.jpg
They just keep getting bigger...
https://img1.mydrivers.com/img/20201016/f2c6001212474dc6a2910a195aa17350.jpg
I love my mini so much
Who remembers the lg chocolate or whatever it was called with like a 25:1 aspect ratio or whatever lol
I remember the LG Wing having an aspect ratio of fuck:you
Someone brought one into my shop to be fixed. Sorry, bud, no. Not touching that.
21:9 haha
Good god can you imagine 25:1? Fucken pencil-shaped display
Okay how about this: Apple Pencil but it’s got a display on the side bang I just made Tim Apple another 6 billion dollars 💵
Sony Xperia
It didn't.