If a company released an updated version of the original iPhone that cost $99 for release in 2027, would anyone buy it or would it be DOA?
By updated: the same functionality but updated with modern tech (i.e. web browser, 4G), a few UI enhancements, original icons etc and more up-to-date (but not cutting edge) hardware design.
Apple cultists would buy it the same way Chinkpad autists swooned over Anniversary Edition.
The idea is that it would attract multiple people: apple-fags, nostalgia-fags, spare phone-fags, old fags, poor-fags.
Phones really haven't progressed that much since 2007 and you could exploit that.
>apple-fags, nostalgia-fags, spare phone-fags, old fags, poor-fags
The original iPhone chassis only really appeals to the first two groups.
>Chinkpad autists swooned over Anniversary Edition
did they really? I only remember how overpriced that piece of shit was.
>Phones really haven't progressed that much since 2007
Try running android 9 on a 2007 phone
That's because Android is a bloated poorly designed POS, not because the software has got much better.
Are you saying that iOS is not bloated?
>software is more demanding
>can‘t run on old hardware
>can run on new hardware
>therefore hardware hasn‘t progressed
The hardware has undoubedly progressed, the software has just got worse because no-one bothers optimising shit now the hardware is good enough.
>software is more demanding
Excluding games, functionalities are the same than 10 years ago, the only thing that changed is the botnet bloat running in the background
>games
>phones
Who the fuck cares about games on phones
t. poorfag who can't afford a Razer Phone 2 with its 120Hz display and HDR support
>functionalities are the same than 10 years ago
t. embryo that never browsed the web on a 12 year old phone
So a 4G iPod touch for a third of the cost?
People might buy it.
>my phone struggles with loading 30 animated ads per webpage
Considering the fact that I'd buy a "new" iphone se, probably a lot of people
>3,5" touch screen
Phones struggled to even render trivial shit smoothely. I‘m not sure what your autistic quest here is. If by lack of progress in phones you mean that they don‘t have built in coffee makers and toasters, then yes they haven‘t progressed. Otherwise they absolutely did.
Pretty much, but it would have limited functionality, so no apps etc.
The idea is that it would be pitched as a "Classic iPhone" as a cheat way to convince people to buy into a new low-cost low-end phone OS.
>actually browsing the web on your phone in 2007
You can stop LARPing anytime
>You can stop LARPing anytime
not him but i was browsing the internet on my symbian nokias long before that
ducking zoommy
My pc is worth more than your house rent poorfag
Jesus, are you literally 14? People downloaded ringtones and porn pics over WAP in early 00s while you were still swimming in someone‘s balls.
I was there and WAP was fucking shit though.
>while you were still swimming in someone‘s balls
Nice projection
Friendly reminder that the first iPhone didn't record video
Friendly reminder that the first iPhone was a revolution
>a revolution
Both the LG prada and Samsung F700 were implementing the same form factor before Apple faggot
For you.
>ITT faggots pretending they were browsing the web daily over a decade ago with their $100+ 500Mb/month data plan over EDGE
You couldnt type shit on the screen of the LG prada
They've done that already with the iPhone 5 and called it the iPhone SE, so yeah. Other OEMs though? I don't think their luck would be the same. I was in the mobility industry 8 years ago, let's take a look at the "best phones" from then as decided by sales, tech reviewers and consumer reviews.
• Samsung Galaxy SII - UGLY. It really was one ugly mother fucker. They'd have to roll back an extra year to the first Galaxy S to have a WinRAR. I still use my original SGS as a pmp for the superior Wolfson DAC.
• Moto Droid Bionic - ugly fucking brick of a phone with way too much of the Verizon aesthetic. Hard pass.
• LG G2x - more of the same, ugly fucking brick. And like the Bionic, nothing to really make it stand out.
• HTC Evo 3D - finally, a phone worth a look. The 3D display and dual 5MP cameras for taking 3D photos would be pretty interesting to see updated for 2019!
• HTC Thunderbolt - and then HTC goes and fucks it. Garbage brick.
• Sony-Ericsson Xperia Play - holy dicks this needs an updated version NOW. With how well newer phones are able to emulate consoles, this would be one badass pocket emu beast with the same PSP style controls but 2019 cpu/gpu/ram
• Google Nexus S - eh. The design was kinda comfy.
• Dell Venue Pro - Arguably the best looking phone of 2010/2011. Though it was sporting WP7, if they gave it a Windows 10 update and better hardware, this would be a serious contender. This was my go-to phone for office tasks when I wasn't actually in my office. Though it did take me a while to begrudgingly give up my e71 and switch away from Symbian.
• HP Pre 3 - no. Just no.
>pretending they were browsing the web daily
Literally nobody said that itt, assblasted zoomedditor.
Nah. Why redesign huge aspects of your UI and only charge $99?
Anyway, here's my rough idea:
1. Build a new OS/platform
2. Initially create a copycat of the original iPhone as the initial target, only make the changes needed for copyright/legal reasons. Use cheap low-cost off-the-shelf hardware. Sell it as an "BlahPhone Classic" as a trojan horse to get some initial traction, along with justifying the relative limited functionality compared with modern phone OSes - the original iPhone is a really nice target as it's about as complete as you'd need a useful phone.
3. Try and build on that initial product momentum to add functionality and create a new, self-sustaining OS/platform.
>Sony-Ericsson Xperia Play - holy dicks this needs an updated version NOW
No one needs this shit. Game consoles and phones clearly doesn't mix.
What if it wasn't Apple and someone built a clone?
>no thinklight
>no status LEDs
>no optical drive
>16:9 display
the only people who swooned over it are hipster NuPad users.
I just want an updated old fat blackberry
These huge phablets don't do if for me
I own a Priv, and it sucks
Key2 my friend.
I'm thinking about it, but the chink owners lowering quality scares me
I'm looking at pic related as an alternative too
I have this on preorder. Truth be told Blackberry was just a stopgap between slabs and that beauty.
You ignored the moto droid which still looks good.
>the original iPhone
Even today Windows Mobile has a massive feature advantage over Apple. And I'm talking about the original Windows CE-based versions which operated like an actual computer.
/cyb/ as fuck
But nobody remembers them because they were worthless feature phones made by South Korean shitbrick manufacturers with no pull, no proper marketing and no future.
>the only thing that matters is marketing and sales
This is why Jow Forums forever mocks iToddler subhumans who think their manchild fruit toys belong on Jow Forums.