After I look again on Apple’s many product occasions, I am all the time fascinated by the
iPhone 6
occasion a decade in the past. It was a two-hour reside stage occasion that gave us a bounty of latest merchandise that modified our world, however a lot drama got here from this occasion and the times that adopted.
And we may even see nothing prefer it ever once more.
Watch this: Apple’s Huge Blunders a Decade In the past: U2, Bendgate, Botched iOS 8
On September 9, 2014, we have been launched to iPhone 6 — the primary cellphone to come back in a Plus measurement — and a cellphone that was later tied to “Bendgate” headlines. Ten years later, no cellphone has ever been as skinny, however we may even see a return to thinnest iPhone ever subsequent 12 months.
At that very same occasion, CEO
Tim Prepare dinner
launched
Apple Watch
to the world — together with the imaginative and prescient of it being a high-end luxurious jewellery heirloom product price tens of 1000’s of {dollars}. A decade later, the posh fashions are out of date, and fashionistas would possibly discover themselves departing with their costly bands. The redesigned tenth version of that Watch, rumored to be revealed in just a few weeks, will not be appropriate with older wristbands.
However most Apple customers keep in mind one thing else from this occasion — it was the day when Apple put a U2 album on everybody’s iPhone. The band performs reside for the gang, after which Bono will get on stage with Prepare dinner to announce in that very second, everybody obtained the album Songs of Innocence on their machines.
After which everybody was left confused on tips on how to take away Songs of Innocence on their machines. (Seems you could not delete it from the iCloud.) Bono apologized (twice), and Apple wanted to create a repair for the state of affairs.
On this week’s episode of One Extra Factor, which you’ll be able to watch embedded above, I dive into these and different awkward moments from the launch a decade in the past. Within the days that adopted this occasion, Apple additionally botched an iOS 8 replace and needed to recall the
software program
for inflicting main bugs to mobile connections. And this occasion marked the launch of Apple Pay — and quite a few follow-up tales coated on why retailers did not wish to play ball with Apple’s new cellular fee system. Apple’s promise to exchange the pockets nonetheless hasn’t come true a decade later — however it did enhance since launch.
As we method the launch of the iPhone 16 and the tenth anniversary of the Apple Watch, it is wild to suppose how a lot as modified, and what feels the identical. And for all of the stumbles that occurred within the days surrounding that occasion, I do lengthy for the times Apple was daring sufficient to take so many dangers and have a reside present (with a musical act, no much less). I am unsure we’ll see a reside occasion like this once more — however I hope we do.
