Sure, the very first iPhone released today, but does anyone remember the first Android smartphone?
In October of 1998 HTC’s T-Mobile G1, or HTC Dream as it’s known outside the U.S would launch being the first phone with the Android OS. The G1 was priced at $179 — which was pretty affordable even in those days — and featured top-of-the-line specs including a Qualcomm MSM7201A processor, 192MB of RAM, and 256MB of internal storage (expandable up to 16GB). It also stocked a 3.15MP rear camera, and a 1,150mAh battery.
oh my god I was going to mention specifically the hamburger icon but I got distracted! lol
Yeah, I never understood where that came from.
These analogies are so interesting, because they can stick for generations even when they stopped making sense. I had never thought much of it until I read Sapiens and the author points out that we’re still using steam engine analogies in our speech.