Anyone old enough to remember those days will know what I mean. The presentation of the original iPhone in 2007 changed the story to such an extent that many of us wanted to try the (at the time) revolutionary interface of the first “iPhone OS”. But of course, no one had an iPhone and you just had to watch the opening speech again and again.
But there were those who were inventive enough to offer some sort of aperitif. Only a few weeks after the presentation, some developers reproduces the touch experience of the first iPhone on a web page. And I’m already telling you that what may now seem like something very simple appeared to us on screen 16 years ago.
In the absence of a device, the web was good
We ourselves echoed this revolution in a June 2007 article that is still accessible: there was a site called “iPhoney” which mimicked the interface of the first iPhone using the web technologies that existed at the time. Unfortunately this site no longer exists.
It wasn’t easy: 16 years ago, there weren’t the APIs and development platforms with the effects that there are now. Emulating the inertia of interface movement that we were going to do with our fingers using a mouse was tricky, especially when we had no choice but to imagine what that feeling would be like. haven’t touched an iPhone yet. But still, and even if the experience was rough, we settled for web emulators like iPhoney because that was all we had.
In terms of touch interfaces, repeating this is already absurd, but beware: the presentation of a Reality Pro can make this type of web exercise repeat itself. It may take a long time between Apple showing off its VR headset and its launch, and while that wait lasts, I wouldn’t be surprised if experiences like iPhoney repeat with what should be a ready-to-run “xrOS” interface. with our eyes. History always ends up repeating itself.
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