It's not about buttons or even copy-paste as weird as that sounds for a techie.
But zooming on a map with your fingers was a game changer. Zooming an imagine with your fingers. Using your fingers to scroll a list, naturally. And lists are probably the most common UI element except for buttons, labels and images. They're for sure the most common complex element.
It wasn't a "few features" (techie speak), it was a "new way of working" (usually marketing speak, but here it was actually true).
W11 is a few missing features for an existing way of working.
The iPhone had a few missing features for a fundamentally new way of working that was much superior to existing smartphones.
Your complaint was like the handlebars on the new bike being hard to push (which I can workaround by pushing harder, up to a point) while the old bike had square wheels and a chassis meant only for square wheels (which I could not work around).
"new way of working" on iphone is using fork to move soup from your pot to bowl instead of ladle, that simply doesn't work
pinch to zoom doesn't interfere in any way with easy app installation or easy files transfer, they can coexist (and they do, on android), sync simply doesn't work when you want to quickly drop that one specific file and keep moving, sync doesn't work when one device has much bigger storage than the other, sync doesn't work when you want to easily remove files from one device
"paradigm shift" to golden cage is not a good thing, apple intended to take all responsibility from users but at a cost of being unable to do anything efficiently
> "paradigm shift" to golden cage is not a good thing, apple intended to take all responsibility from users but at a cost of being unable to do anything efficiently
The original iPhone didn't have an app store, apps were supposed to be web apps.
If you're going to rewrite history, at least do it well.
I get it, you're a techie, just like me. I use Android, I don't like iOS.
But to deny that for the average person the iPhone was the first usable smartphone is just silly at this point.
It's not about buttons or even copy-paste as weird as that sounds for a techie.
But zooming on a map with your fingers was a game changer. Zooming an imagine with your fingers. Using your fingers to scroll a list, naturally. And lists are probably the most common UI element except for buttons, labels and images. They're for sure the most common complex element.