Re:Ask HN: What Lived Up to the Hype?
by rgovostes on Thursday December 24, 2020 @12:54PM
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My favorite thing about the iPhone announcement is when Steve shows Cover Flow of album art (at about 18 minutes in your link), which spins around to show a track listing. It was a slick 3D animation on a phone, when most of us were carrying bar or flip phones navigated with stiff arrow keys. Yet the audience reaction is pretty tepid. Already the future seemed ordinary just a few minutes into the announcement!
Until that iPhone unveil, no-one had ever seen swipe-to-scroll, now its second nature to at least half the planet.
Video of the 2007 unveil: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vN4U5FqrOdQ