IMAGE staffer Jennifer Sheerin’s wellness routine balances busy days with carving out space for herself
IMAGE staffer Jennifer Sheerin’s wellness routine balances busy days with carving out space for herself

Jennifer Sheerin

This three-storey Dalkey home has the most beautiful sloping gardens
This three-storey Dalkey home has the most beautiful sloping gardens

IMAGE

Real Weddings: Kelly and Sean’s show-stopping wedding in Co Kerry
Real Weddings: Kelly and Sean’s show-stopping wedding in Co Kerry

Shayna Healy

WIN a bundle of Max Benjamin wall fragrance diffusers worth €165
WIN a bundle of Max Benjamin wall fragrance diffusers worth €165

Megan Burns

If networking is a super power then Mary McKenna deserves a cape
If networking is a super power then Mary McKenna deserves a cape

Fiona Alston

The sunglasses team IMAGE are reaching for this summer
The sunglasses team IMAGE are reaching for this summer

Sarah Gill

Page Turners: ‘Assembling Ailish’ author Sharon Guard
Page Turners: ‘Assembling Ailish’ author Sharon Guard

Sarah Gill

A seafront Skerries home has been given a luxe update with rich colours and hotel-inspired details
A seafront Skerries home has been given a luxe update with rich colours and hotel-inspired...

Megan Burns

Calling all Irish entrepreneurs: The Pitch 2025 is open for applications
Calling all Irish entrepreneurs: The Pitch 2025 is open for applications

IMAGE

Money moves: Smart financial strategies for every chapter of your life
Money moves: Smart financial strategies for every chapter of your life

IMAGE

Image / Editorial

Hindsight Is Hilarious: 5 Times Everyone Was So Wrong About The iPhone


By Sophie White
29th Jun 2017
Hindsight Is Hilarious: 5 Times Everyone Was So Wrong About The iPhone

It’s the 10th Anniversary of Apple’s game-changing phone/ipod/email/life-ruler, the iPhone. Happy Birthday tiny device that has made it so that we are now unable to sit quietly with our thoughts for even a nanosecond before we feel the urge to stroke your shiny exterior again.


When the iPhone hit the shelves 10 years ago, there was a lot of skeptics among the tech journalists of the era. Reading their scathing reception of the device that has profoundly altered our culture in the decade since is pretty funny. Especially given that the likelihood is you are currently reading this on the supposedly doomed-to-fail iPhone.

Advertising Age wrote “The iPhone will be a major disappointment” in an article boldly titled Why the iPhone Will Fail, their’main quibble apparently?being that it was a convergence device and that consumers typically didn’t take to multifunctionality. Riiiiight. Imagine having as many devices as there are uses on iPhone all rattling around in our handbags all day. Hang on, let me just grab out my email box, my wireless, my camera obscura and my Facebook tablet.

MarketWatch was equally doubtful: “These phones go in and out of style so fast that unless Apple has half a dozen variants in the pipeline, its phone, even if immediately successful, will be pass? within 3 months.” Their headline advised Apple to “pull the plug on the iPhone”!

TechCrunch trumpeted “We Predict The iPhone Will Bomb” in their headline, followed by a litany of complaints about the low battery life, cracked screens et al. All things that we do admittedly complain endlessly?about and yet tolerate such is our devotion to the iPhone.

Even?The Guardian was pretty sure that the iPhone would be “set to struggle”.

Perhaps the most ironic quote of all came from TheStreet.com who emphatically maintained “The iPhone isn’t the future. It isn’t a revolutionary mobile device ushering in a new era.”

Photo by?Bruno Gomiero?on?Unsplash