Yes indeed, Happy Birthday IOS! The first iPhone was available in 3 flavours, 4, 8 and 16GB storage capacity. Apple introduced the “Apps Store” a year later but - up until that point - the iPhone was a business disaster. The iPhone without a doubt revolutionised hand-held devices and from that Android and Windows Phone were born. I joined the party with an Apple 3GS in late 2009 and positively marvelled at how a blind person could use and read a Touch Screen, if anyone had told me up until that point that a blind person could use a Touch Screen efficiently then I would have laughed quite literally in their face. The iPhone reminds me of a Braille Note Taker in some ways, some people think an iPhone - like a Note Taker - is God’s gift to the blind. And thus exclude other technology’s or other equipment that may be more practical, there is a big wide world out there.
> On 1 Jul 2017, at 1:20 am, Gordon Smith <gor...@mac-access.net> wrote: > > Good day to you all. > > I’m not starting another Apple thread here, it’s more of a generic > observation. > > It was exactly 10 years ago today that Apple released the first iPhone. What > a lot has changed in those ensuing years, and quite a bit has not changed. > iOS in its nappy-wetting days was very very basic. I joined the party with > the release of the 3GS and it’s continued from there. > > The word is that Apple plans to release the first public beta of iOS11 later > today, so that should be interesting. > > Anyway, happy birthday to you, happy birthday to you! Happy birthday, dear > iPhone, happy birthday to you! > > Ten candles on the cake already. > > ================================================= > > My compliments and kindest regards > Gordon Smith: > <gor...@mac-access.net <mailto:gor...@mac-access.net>> > Accessibility & Information Technology Support Specialist.. > > This Message Was Created Using 100% Recycled Electrons > > Contact: > > • UK Free Phone: 0800 8620538 > • UK Mobile/SMS: +44 (0) 7907 823971 > • Vic. Australia: +61 38 82059300 > • US/Canada: +1 646 9151493 > > • UK Geographic / Global: +44(0) 1642 688095 > > ———————————————————— > —— > > > >
