Steve Jobs "predicts" the iPhone in 1981

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[@rndhoody2634]

This isn't a prediction, it's a mission statement.

[@directed_by_steve]

FACTS! he was 20yrs a head of the game

[@mollyvilakazi]

Every computer company had this mission statement back then, so much so that phone companies had the same idea. He didn't invent anything, he just improved some things.

[@dronedrone1683]

you mean vision statement. mission statement describes what do you do now while vision statement deals with what you plan to do in the future.

[@rndhoody2634]

@@dronedrone1683 they did it while he said this. there was a history of making computers more user friendly before smart phones.

[@mollyvilakazi]

@@rndhoody2634 exactly.

[@chickenbloodmachine]

He's not predicting the iPhone. He's predicting the Macintosh.

[@Holden_McHock]

"He's" dead

[@jackbob3038]

???? Yeah he is what's ur point

[@theParticleGod]

He's not predicting anything, he toured Xerox PARC in 1979, where he saw the mouse, windows, icons, menus, ethernet networking, laser printing, paper-white monitors. Xerox PARC carried on the work of Douglas Englebart, the guy who *actually* predicted what modern computers would be like in the late 1950s, based on applying the work of Vannevar Bush using computers. Jobs is just the salesman who successfully commercialised that work - about 30 years and one failed attempt later.

[@ericcaires6715]

​@@Holden_McHockright what the fuck is your point?

[@nonhuman7562]

@@theParticleGod the failure of the Xerox Alto was not due to the success of the Apple Macintosh.

[@SalvableRuin]

It is uncanny how much Ashton Kutcher resembles Steve Jobs in this clip.

[@Yahweh5995]

He actually played Steve Jobs in a film .

[@AIAudiobooks411]

steve was very good looking in his time no homo

[@djd829]

@@Yahweh5995 stahp

[@johnsorrow1987]

He even sounds like him.

[@aeronovus]

You don't have to say no homo, don't be insecure bruv ​@@AIAudiobooks411

[@hardcoredoom5892]

Frickin’ natural-born businessman right there. He’s done his homework.

[@chris7921]

He did his homework, past hence!

[@bill_lumbergh]

@@chris7921eh no present perfect tense “he’s done” applies better here as it’s saying he was prepared for the present moment in time when they interviewed him

[@soberanisfam1323]

​@@bill_lumberghincorrect

[@Pixiebolt]

Absolutely, this man did it all by observation. He once said how visiting Xerox PARC completely opened his mind to all the ways we could innovate and interact with technology. His genius came from observing and predicting human evolution. A sociology teacher once told me he had a feature which almost no one noticed about him. He was an ethnographer for many decades and no one noticed. People only saw the end product and thought he was just a genius inventor, but it went so much deeper than that 🎯💯👌

[@shlee3088]

Nah. He is the one that assigns the homework

[@bridgecross]

He was thinking about the users and consumers far before anyone else in the computer industry.

[@MiamiWebDesign]

Absolutely. Everyone else was thinking about chips and bits but he was thinking about the general public and making the computer a natural everyday beautiful device for everyone.

[@HomeAtLast501]

The entire industry was working toward this. It was a collective vision. There are segments from a 1967 series on the 21st century done by Walter Kronite in which he showed a home of the future, The home had a computer that allowed you to access weather, stock quotes, and news online. He showed how you'll be able to read the news on the screen, and then print a hard copy if you want. He showed video phone calls. She showed a computer in the kitchen that the mother used to recalculate the measurements for a recipe if she had a few more people eating over, and the kids used the computer to complete their homework --- they were doing math problems, and the computer told them whether or not they got the correct answers. That was over a decade before the Mac. In another episode it showed how computers were already being used to design cars, including generating 3-D drawings. How they were being used to control jetliners.

[@MiamiWebDesign]

​@@HomeAtLast501 I'm thankful for all of those forward thinkers but I still believe that Steve, with his manic drive and will actually got it done for society alot sooner and alot nicer than would have been otherwise.

[@HomeAtLast501]

You're addressing a separate issue. I was in grad school in 2004, and I did a big research paper on how the cell phone was going to change the distribution of entertainment. The first smartphone came out in 2007. I myself described everything that was going to happen. It was very clear to everyone that everything we were doing on laptops we would also be doing on cell phones. People seem to believe that Jobs invented computers and the idea of networks --- and that simply is not true. @@MiamiWebDesign

[@GwyyshsbakIzjsbsbszjzjzjhh]

He thought about profits only. He killed user upgradable and very popular Apple II with Macintosh, a less powerful and proprietary non upgradable computer that tanked in the market despite costly promotion. Apple still follows the same ideal, charging $200 for a ram upgrade. Apple II was built by Wozniak almost single handedly and he could build things on his own, unlike Jobs who was just a salesman. It is sad that Wozniak's vision of Apple computers were killed despite them being the cash cow which saved the company during it's tough times.

[@SonOfStoned]

He looks like he just took a few rips out the bong before the interview, which he did with joy

[@visualsbysenpai]

ay wtf 😂😭

[@WatercraftGames]

Not surprised

[@heyhocodyo97]

He did experiment with drugs when he was younger i think he did hallucinate drugs like LSD

[@SuperFilmregisseur]

He loved marijuana, and i loved his biography

[@heyhocodyo97]

@@SuperFilmregisseur Even in his later years Steve was still a hippie and I respect that

[@curry1696]

Time traveler: *moves a rock* Jeffrey Dahmer: CoMputErS

[@culhwch4168]

Netflix show really ruin this glasses reputation...

[@iskandarsulaili]

Knowing Steve Jobs. He didn't predict it. He planned and make it happen.

[@jeffyp2483]

knowing steve jobs some engineer and a tech were working on it and he walked by and said 'oh whats this? my new pet! thats what!'

[@TheNelster72]

​@@jeffyp2483You gotta have an instinct for what's worth stealing though right? Lol

[@TheUtuber999]

How do we know some venture capitalist didn't shove a board in Woz's hands and say, "Look boys, you need to sell this as your own creation and I'll make you rich beyond your wildest dreams."

[@justindawson5930]

Did any of you guys actually know him personally

[@jamesjones9207]

@@justindawson5930 yes me and old Steve we go way back. I was actually there in his garage with wozzi. it was Steve’s idea to build the computer. It was Wozniaks intelligence that put it together, and it was my money that funded the whole project. They always leave that part out .matter of fact, they were broke they were living off of my money. I was the one that made their dream Come true. And whenever they tell the story, they leave me out of it. They don’t wanna tell you that if it wasn’t for me they would never been able to afford those computer parts. They would’ve never been able to afford to incorporate. honestly, it was probably karma that gave cancer to Steve because had he not left me out I guarantee he’d still be here today. That’s just the way the world goes.

[@jcreswick]

I like the part when he says ...and it will be called iphone..... amazing

[@MiniLemmy]

There wasn’t the product at that time to be made into the brand

[@theoneandonlygamingshow5101]

bro, he said the concept of it, you can’t just come up with the idea on the spot and call it something. He envisioned the idea and knew what was going to happen but he can’t come up with a product name on the spot when the technology doesn’t exist. What kinda stupid are you? Tell me your 6 years old without telling me ur 6 years old

[@nexongn]

You seem like a funny dude… keep it up

[@alexsalazar5161]

i cant tell if youre joking, if you are its not a good joke

[@Rob-gf3pb]

@@MiniLemmyexactly The title of this video is quite generous if not simply inaccurate

[@RobertNight1]

Steve Jobs: "Computers will become more intuitive over time" people in the comments: "OMG WHAT A GENIUS HE CAN SEE THE FUTURE" Huh?

[@Rocky_Jones]

Lol.

[@Steven-e7c]

Funny 😂

[@honkhonkler7732]

Facts. He literally stated the obvious here, even at the time. This isn't a prediction of the iPhone lol

[@AquelarreCazuza]

Surely you've wrote this silly comment from your i phone

[@Lretrotech]

even through all the controversy with steve jobs, you have to admit he was a fantastic presenter

[@CaptainQwazCaz]

What’s the controversy?

[@Lretrotech]

@@CaptainQwazCaz He abused his workers

[@yashkumar3196]

​@@Lretrotechthats how u be a compitant business

[@kimothefungenuis]

no @@yashkumar3196

[@kimothefungenuis]

is that real or just allegations?@@Lretrotech

[@agindo]

Genius. And Visionary. And mad. But that’s often the perfect combination.

[@AmenomejodasPajaritos]

Narciso

[@willm678]

Also a narcissistic dick but let’s not mention that part I guess

[@austinhernandez2716]

Extreme narcissistic psychopath that took credit for the work of others.

[@chalinuchamadith115]

@@austinhernandez2716 can you elaborate

[@scallen3841]

A over paid salesman

[@RogerWilco486]

I like the part where he says "computer"

[@B4NDllKOOT_]

This phone is a computer

[@Andrescxli]

Ikr he said it so many times😂

[@snickerdoooodle]

​@@B4NDllKOOT_ nobody said otherwise numbskull

[@MJAli89]

Soon the computer will be like his glasses. Visionary

[@justiceLaw0123]

Ha ha ha

[@MyVideos-fm7ug]

Someone else would have thought of everything he’s talked about and done eventually. He just got in first, then hid behind antitrust laws, anti-competition and so forth, where he was able to build a monopoly preventing most of his competition from even getting started I think he’s the antichrist, honestly. Just look at what the iphone has done to society, and with the help of what was originally a department of defense file sharing system, but was commercialized by Bill Clinton in the mid 90s - the internet The commercialization of the internet will one day be declared as humanity’s biggest and most tragic mistake

[@DumbBunny5328]

A lot of people think about how visionary Jobs was but he really wasn’t what he was remembered for until he came back to apple in the late 90s. In fact, most of Apple’s early issues were from him for example: -He helped design the Apple II case and his insistence on no vents (first of many times he would do this) led to the first run of machines to MELT causing them all to be recalled and replaced. -He led the Apple III project which was a colossal disaster -The Lisa flopped even harder than the A3 and Macintosh wasn’t the runaway success that Apple likes to say it was either.

[@MiamiWebDesign]

Yes the man was trying to have his teams build better, nicer, quieter stuff than what was already out there. This was his trial and error process even if it lost money. He had a vision and today you and I are probably on a mobile device created thanks in large part because of him and his crazy ideas, and failures.

[@Art-is-craft]

Without the failures there would have been no way to the success.

[@dunebasher1971]

@DumbBunny5238 Lots you got wrong here. Early Apple IIs did not melt. You're getting confused with the Apple III, which was NOT led by Jobs, but by Wendell Sander. Jobs DID insist on no fan in the Apple III, but the early run of those did not melt either - they had thermal issues, with chips working loose from the sockets and some floppy discs appearing "melted" when removed from the drive, but the machines themselves did not melt.

[@DumbBunny5328]

@@dunebasher1971 the very first batch of Apple IIs lacked vents and were made from a lower quality plastic. As such, the plastic would in fact melt. Apple recalled basically all of them almost immediately and replaced them with a higher quality case. There were only around 1,000 made and most people don’t know they exist.

[@julianojosoa2145]

​@@MiamiWebDesignbro the iPhone was litterally not his idea. Jobs was against making an Apple Phone. It was some engineer's idea. They pitched it to him he said It was worst idea he ever heard. But those engineers did persevere and worked in secret to try prove him the concept again a few months later. Then they made two teams compete to design the product. When job presented the iPhone he made seems like it was his idea and vision. But the true visionary people who imagined it after seeing the Fingerwork's prototype. Fingerwork was the company that invented and perfected multi-touch gestures that Apple later bought to get their patents. Those people sacrificed their personal lives to make the iPhone happen without any Days off and supporting Job's toxicity.

[@jensgrull5675]

This was for the PC at home! Not for cell phones! This came much later!

[@Boxy071]

I wouldn’t say he predicted the iPhone in this video!!

[@djd829]

He didn't. This could apply to any Apple product if you think about it. Clickbait

[@daedae88]

Where does he talk about the iPhone?

[@I_WANT_MY_SLAW]

Nowhere. It's called clickbait

[@ALurkingGrue]

He is talking about the Lisa here that he is going to release in 83 but can't say because they are developing it. (He saw the Xerox workstation in 79 at the Xerox research lab and is about to steal all the concepts of the GUI from them.)

[@igorcosta5482]

Steve uses design logic to think projects FOR people. That’s why he drove apple to his best software products

[@TEEDUBS]

Exactly. As Steve said: “Our job is to figure out what they’re going to want before they do”.

[@georgeplagianos6487]

Well this isn't the only industry that thinks that way.. for the longest time with only been geared to desire this and that instead of what we need. With all the advertising on bill boards newspapers TV radio they draw us to desire this and that. Without thinking corporations get greedy and won't significantly reduce their prices because is the motivation

[@andyarvai3199]

Wow, i cannot believe how much steve jobs here looks and sounds just like Ashton Kutchner....... I remember when this interview occurred in 1981.

[@tropicten]

If the year is accurate, he’s likely talking about Lisa. Edit: This was filmed on February 18 1981.

[@envitech02]

Local Integrated System Architecture. At least that's what he claims.

[@tropicten]

@@envitech02 I believe that Steve later admitted that yes, he did name it after his daughter.

[@KennethPlaysOfficial]

He got everything right. By 1991 many people had computers in their homes.

[@Oliver_Saer]

It's an interesting clip, but in no way reflects the title.

[@wilsonp2936]

This video crazy how He’s still just has smart or if not smarter

[@triple7marc]

He died ten years ago.

[@mayurramudit]

@@triple7marc LMAO

[@Astr000]

@@mayurramudit how is that funny?

[@snoopdoggthecertifiedg6777]

He’s dead, dude.

[@visualsbysenpai]

​@@Astr000 bro must be laughing his ass off

[@jesusmarywillsaveyou]

That prognostication was phenomenally accurate.

[@vanleeuwenhoek]

Considering how he influenced that vision through a WISIWYG program environment that we see realized in the Macintosh OS--which rested on just-coming-on-line processor and memory chip tech--this was less about predicting a future than in making it.

[@Enderking-xs2zt]

He was a smart man it makes me very sad that he died of cancer instead of old age

[@cainification]

It's kind of amazing how much more respectful we are of the dead. There is zero doubt in my mind that if Steve Jobs were alive today he'd be getting the Elon Musk treatment lol

[@Imdragon725]

Steve Jobs will not be happy to see what his company has become like Apple saying iphones not fixable when they just needed to change the screen

[@earlyadoptersclub]

Steve Jobs was unstoppable

[@unadomandaperte]

No. He didn't predict the iPhone. He predicted AI. A sophisticated computer? For unsophisticated people! Your world in a nutshell.

[@joeyweinstock2272]

The world changed in 2007 when the first Iphone released

[@djd829]

@austinnighteyes1900 🤣

[@J1Jordy]

@austinnighteyes1900Which weren't many. He only announced the first 4 iPhones before passing away.

[@scallen3841]

That's not a world changer

[@Rocky_Jones]

I know it was so crazy that our lives were never the same. I had to move far away I left my family changed my name and I was eating off the land because how mad and unrecognizable the world has become. Nights became days' days became nights, lions became herbivores and rabbits became carnivores.

[@CMDRGreyWolfe]

Bit of a stretch to say he's 'predicting the iPhone' as he doesn't mention anything about a phone once. He's basically saying computing will become more accessible to the average user over time.

[@Xoxotho]

But that shiny hair though.. 🩵

[@rhinoknife]

I watched this 16 times before I realized that it was looping

[@camsfour4177]

Are you 70 years old?

[@sharifalhumaid8537]

In 1981 personal computers were monochrome. He was ahead of his time and was able to translate his mission in various devices beyond PCs.

[@NickWestgate]

No. Apple's first computer in 1977 was colour, hence the colours in their logo. It was created by Steve ... no, not Jobs. Steve Wozniak.

[@honkhonkler7732]

The Macintosh only had a monochrome screen for several years after competitors and Apple's own II/III line had color displays available.

[@jimhenderson9199]

Adding layers of abstraction to reach the interface that enables everyday people to interact with the computer

[@FromAGeek]

This gave me chills

[@Rocky_Jones]

U ghey

[@SimonGeraedts]

He isn't predicting iPhones, he's predicting an easier use of computers.

[@theextreme732]

Pure Genius;

[@emmanueljammes6481]

He did not mention anything specific. He only told what everyone in the computer business was expecting at that time. He was just a geek who had money to realise his ideas. Good for him !

[@richardcollis5576]

By this definition any science fiction is a prediction

[@Johnny-adamser]

He pretty much summarized Apple. And it was his addition: being a non-engineer leading engineers, he felt this himself

[@evelyndayy]

Him : knowing what he’s talking about Me: huh?

[@gogertonherface5849]

@LEOMESHI you must be 16

[@tshavfengvang7831]

Fun fact: Jobs was both book and street smart.

[@bkb04g]

Didn’t hear anything about iPhone but yea he was on point with the trajectory of the computer industry.

[@dark666ALISTER]

After High Sierra & the Mac's that followed 2015 hardware, the paradox became distopically insane & real.

[@TheOtherDerek]

Some people can just explain things easier than the rest of us.

[@barryguff6893]

Computers weren't hard to use back in the '70s. I was a 10-year-old and knew how they worked after reading a couple of books. People just don't want to learn anything these days; they want everything spoon-fed to them.

[@andyarvai3199]

thus enters tiktok and snapchat. Kids are addicted to those social media.

[@FearUniverse]

He said the word computer a thousand times

[@kristianquinones7488]

*12 to be exact.

[@Raihan__4535]

So what

[@FearUniverse]

@@Raihan__4535 Nah nothing. It just caught my attention

[@FearUniverse]

@@kristianquinones7488 yes

[@SuperFilmregisseur]

Apple Computer

[@Aldebaran80]

Simply, this man had a vision for the technology and marketing far above the rest of the mortals.

[@kevinarzola4781]

I like the part where he doesn’t mention a phone

[@ZXPhazze]

The iphone is a computer

[@kevinarzola4781]

@@ZXPhazze an iPhone is a communication device

[@ZXPhazze]

@@kevinarzola4781 That's correct, computers are used as cominication devices.

[@TheNelster72]

That's because he had no idea mobile phones would exist so accessibly.

[@TexboyGamer]

Because this clip has nothing to do with cellphones

[@johnps1670]

Easier to use could also be achieved by terminals.

[@apm9475]

Jobs was just a good salesman with ideas ! Woz and his team were the real brains behind Apple ! Yet if you listen to Jobs , he would have you believe. It was all his work 😊

[@strongbelieveroftheholybible]

Steve Jobs is one of the fallen angels/ demons that got kick out from heaven for their rebellion. A lot of them are still in this generation ( celebrities, politicians, scientists) Lord Jesus Christ is coming soon🙏🏼❤️🕊Repent , believe in the Gospel, Be Born Again

[@slob5041]

He popularized the term desktop and personal computer. It can’t be understated how much Steve changed the tech world alone.

[@bradavon]

He's predicting the iPad, not iPhone. He's talking about a personal computer not a handheld computer. The idea of a computer in your pocket was decades ahead of 80s thinking.

[@marketingsandy]

Lol this is not a video of 1981 this is the video of something around when he was 32 or 33 in age

[@krisgrizzard7811]

And what year was that deeps

[@leleart8319]

He was 26 in this video dummy

[@mikebrown354]

That's dumb, Steven Job wasn't even Keen on the idea of tablet PCs and traditional PDA . Until in early 2000 with the success of the touch screen iPod

[@AlphaGod990]

For anyone who doesn't understand, in IT terms, he's talking about UX, also known as User Experience. Utilizing a user-friendly integration so that more people use the product.

[@Rob2068]

Good points. The PC took a long time to become adopted by the public. By contrast, smartphones were almost instantly adopted by most. Now not only are smartphones owned by almost everyone in the US, it is becoming necessary to function in the modern world.

[@Salimgaming27]

Meanwhile Tim Cook: introducing the revolutionary usb c port!

[@sarah-vo]

usb c is pretty nice though

[@johnbergstrom2931]

I didn't hear him predict the I-phone... I heard him simply codify Moore's Law.

[@skystreem4860]

The iPhone wasn’t even his idea. It was an engineer who he even insulted at the idea of suggesting a phone.

[@pulsatingsausageboy2076]

Doesn’t add up. If he didn’t want the iPhone it wouldn’t have happened.

[@DumbBunny5328]

@@pulsatingsausageboy2076jobs was notorious throughout apple for being in the minority decision-wise.

[@pulsatingsausageboy2076]

@@DumbBunny5328 Hahaha! Right! As if you were there or something. STFU.

[@1974dormouse]

@@DumbBunny5328so notorious that you’re the only one that thinks that. Gtfo 🤡

[@elliotsober7042]

Proven fact- It's not what you know but who!

[@watamatafoyu]

Seems like Steve had an underbite that was corrected later.

[@NeKa..]

After moving on, I realised Apple to me demised with Steve Jobs...innovation for consumer... Literally that 'change everything'...It was all about product... It's all about marketing now because 'change' is just new processor and cameras now and a lot of catching up even to the poor ol' android...I mean, I tried to help an iPhoner to pin live scores for today's match (like me) but couldn't because he has iPhone 13 pro max and pinning live scores is only possible if you have iphone 14 pro/max and apple tv app...ahem! You can do this on any crappiest android 13 phone. Apple is not about product or innovation anymore, it's just a brand that sucks logic and bucks out of you... Oh well! I guess we all have a knack for a good suck.

[@Adriana-no4wp]

These are the kind of man I like holy😳

[@vimalcurio]

Well I'm next Steve jobs

[@Matt02341]

The key development for jobs was realizing he needed to beat Microsoft on marketing not technology. He brokered a deal for Microsoft to buy stock in apple and proceeded to out market Microsoft with the Mac. Which had a handle! A CRT screen with a handle?!? Think Different. Amazing marketing. IBM was the google of its day and their slogan was think. Untouchable creedo from their founder. Jobs took it and made it his own. Apple marketed to the marginal players (non business people) and amassed a fortune (PC guy vs. Mac guy) by being able to distribute to the marginalized masses iPod/iTunes Apple disrupted the music industry so much that we still have conventions based on that theory. Jobs made a fortune selling his ideas to not ignorant people but the ignored. Who is ignored in today’s society? Figure that out and you’ll be the next Gazillionaire.

[@whatsthediehlman2901]

Do you know. In 1987, I sat down for 30 minutes and talked with this man, and he offered me a Job. I declined, he asked why - I said because I”m going to college, and he said are you enrolled? I said Yes. He said that’s too bad. I should have taken him up on the offer. I own all Apple products. You've inspired me since we tallked in 1987. Peace Steve! I know your out there!

[@hotrodgt66scarbuildsandmor46]

college ruins lives

[@OGWolfofAI]

It sounds like you’re saying you chose to pay to learn instead of getting paid while learning from steve Jobs. 😂

[@doctorpanigrahi9975]

That was a blunder... How do you live with yourself ?

[@starchild2121]

Next time somebody's last name is Jobs offers you a job you better take it! 😬

[@TheUtuber999]

You might have been able to work on development of the iMac. 😂

[@Dat550go]

Listen closely: "Adapt the computer to the way people are doing things." 😢😢😢😢😢

[@pattyoneill91]

He fuckin nailed it. By 91 it was already about to Change

[@KAFKUBA]

The iPhone was predicted in the 60s when I was in grade school

[@CayoticProphet]

This is what happens when computer illiterate people popularize a locked-down device that acts more like an appliance than multimedia communication device. It's 2024 and I am still using a Blackberry with Android OS for a reason. A physical keyboard provides 52 physical shortcuts using either short press or long press of each and every letter available.

[@weebygamer3808]

did you just...called Steve... a computer illiterate??!!

[@imprial]

hes talking about the people who buy them....​@@weebygamer3808

[@TBHJR]

"A physical keyboard provides 52 physical shortcuts using either short press or long press of each and every letter available." Yeah have fun with a phone that can't adapt to anything.

[@TalynOne]

He hated the idea of an Apple phone, he had to be convinced by many engineers and many heated arguments to give it a go

[@johnphantom]

LOL where did he say "personal mobile computer" or something like that? All he is talking about is what he saw at Xerox. Jobs was a salesman with no computer skills.

[@moxiegaming8726]

My god thats Steve?! Jeez he’s really changed

[@Fetidaf]

Well he’s been dead for 10 years so…

[@nickwilsonxc]

@@Fetidaf Some might say you’d barely recognize him anymore.

[@dna9838]

Never liked this idea of dumbing down computers.. it’s a bit like stating that we will produce better calculators to remove the need for mental arithmetic. It’s dumbing down people. I don’t want the details, the nuts and bolts to be hidden away from me. I want to get into the details and I find a raspberry pi kit or apple 2 or bbc micro or self build pc more beautiful than an iMac for exactly that reason.

[@obvioustruth]

Thumb down 😕👎 Has nothing to do with telecommunication at all and especially iPhone. Click bait.

[@TBHJR]

The iPhone is a simple yet sophisticated computer in your pocket, leagues ahead of what PCs were capable of in decades past. That is what the title is referring to. It isn't literal lol.

[@obvioustruth]

@@TBHJR Yes. Title is reffering to iPhone but not Steve Jobs.

[@TBHJR]

@@obvioustruth but that is what Steve Jobs is talking about. He’s talking a future of sophisticated yet simple computers. That’s what an iPhone is. You’re taking the title too literally.

[@lowhat]

He was so smart

[@toddmaek5436]

The iphone?? i think he predicted the IPOD

[@krisgrizzard7811]

Can’t tell if your joking

[@jayejaycurry5485]

I thought it was Gene Roddenberry who predicted the iPhone in Star Trek on TV in the 1960s in the form of the communicator. I bet that's where Steve Jobs got the idea.

[@tharrisharrison7066]

Click bait

[@ninethetwotailedfox]

idk

[@nomo4u886]

How so?

[@mrbb8982]

@@nomo4u886 not from 81 and hes just explaining the basics of his plans

[@asdfg3421]

He's talking about bitmapped graphics, every pixel is addressable that way Apple could create graphical user interfaces. A couple years before this he went to Xerox and saw the Xerox Parc. His team "copied" or iterated off that idea and he released the Macintosh in '84, Xerox got paid in Apple stock.

[@wilsonp2936]

💪🌎🙏

[@winterheat]

at the back was probably the music program for Apple II and it had the Mozart K545 Movement 1. Maybe it was MusiComp

[@vordt4139]

This is Wozniak

[@Shinglesdoctor]

No, this is Patrick.

[@Shinglesdoctor]

Also no, it's clearly Steve Jobs.

[@JayD1994]

as an Apple fan, everything they do is perfect, and I advocate for a worldwide government lead by Apple

[@Dev-In-Denver123]

Ahh, back when the chips flowed in like golden honey. “There will never be a shortage!” they said

[@shandor2522]

Clickbait stupid title, but Jobs remains the foundational genius whose innovations were imitated once he proved they were desired by the people.

[@carlvaz]

Steve Jobs was a genious and we are benefiting today by his genuinity.

[@GAMERIN-rn6dj]

I'd love to see you guys together again I've been watching you guys for 8 years and I'd love to see you both back together ❤

[@jeffyp2483]

title is erroneous. when were people 'used to' touch screen user input super computers that fit in their pocket (smaller than some wallets) in 1981 or before?

[@deannahirbawi7639]

I love you Steve Jobs!!!!!

[@ColGesso]

Crazy I predicted that in 1979 wonder how what I said got around to him.

[@mark5150ty]

So stating something that's obvious can now be considered a prediction?

[@v-tech4981]

Watch this on my iPhone 😂

[@kevinmahoney1995]

More of a philosophy or a mission statement than a prediction, and it was less about the iPhone and more about GUI-based operating systems. And he was right, because by the early 90s, GUI was mainstream.

[@polymath6475]

1976: I'm calling it APPLE because we'll be the number one seller of APPs in the future developed by millions of software companies to our distributed thousand-dollar handheld devices, and I'll just skim 30% of the revenue, because we'll collect the charges seamlessly every month so the mere mortals won't even notice.

[@polymath6475]

Q: How many devices due you think you'll sell? A: well at least a billion, but maybe two or three, even though that many people don't exist today, they're having lots of babies so by the time our tech is developed they'll all be coming of age and they'll want our sexy new devices and will force their parents to buy them. Q: well if you sell a billion thousand-dollar devices, that means you could be a trillion dollar company? A: yeah, not just, stocks are sold at multiples, so probably more. I know it's impossible today, but I will create that future. After all, somebody envisioned the chair you're sitting on and created it.

[@davidca96]

didnt hear a damn thing other than computers will get faster and easier to use...but ok.

[@PigeonsandCapybaras]

Apparently Steve Jobs didn’t actually die as a direct result of cancer, it’s actually that the chemo he went through caused his hairline to recede so much that he died of it

[@Knowledge_wisdomwins]

Considering cell phones came out in the 1970’s…this wasn’t that hard to believe.