You might just have asked one of the most profound questions in this decade. Who or why did you ask this question??? I am not joking

The iPhone isn’t a question. Its roadmap up to the X was probably set by that point.

It’s the iPad and Mac evolutions that probably would’ve been very different, though the move to the M chips was probably the plan back then.

I don’t see anything significant happening to Apple imo. I mean, there was likely a layout of what things to release as well as Jony Ive (being one of Apple’s core designers) having a vision for Apple. Hell, he helped with some of the best products like the G4, 2007 iPhone, and first iPod!

Also, iOS, MacOS, and the iPad were all starting to mature. The skeuomorphic design was fading away into something more “modern”. I do see silicon Mac’s releasing sooner as well as Vision Pro releasing earlier, but the first few iterations being limited and restricted.

My theory is that the product line would’ve been more minimal, and Apple wouldn’t be the highest market cap company. Also the 699 Mac Pro wheels wouldn’t exist.

But who knows, none of us would really know.

They wouldnt be coming out every year with only small changes to the iPhone . Now every dam phone maker seems to be doing it .sometimes its not the hardware that needs improving but the software

Lot of people saying the phone wouldn’t have gotten bigger, but the Android side showed that people wanted OMG HEUG phones.

I think the notch would have never passed the Jobsian review.

I do think that the camera bump would also have driven him crazy so he might have ordered the team to design around it.

But there’s not much you can really do once the shape reaches the flat rectangle. So, I don’t the phones would be radically different.

As many people have pointed out, iPhone trends over the past few years have not aligned with Steve’s design philosophy, both in terms of screen size and things such as cameras not being flush.

But more importantly, and please don’t be immature and downvote me, far too many changes to both iPhone design and iOS feature set have been reactions to competition in the Android space. This is not a knock at Apple, they just looked at what the market seemed to be demanding and pivoted to deliver. The idea that everything up until now or even through the X was already fully planned by 2011 is not just kind of silly, it borders on blind religious faith.

Full screen probably was always in the cards, though as some have said, most likely for a device akin to the mini and lacking a notch.

If Apple has a detailed road map for 10+ years and didn’t bother to respond to market demands or user input in all that time… we probably wouldn’t be here typing this on our iPhones now.

when i was a teenager, i asked my mom how she thought steve jobs (like, 1970s jobs) would react to an iMac made today. she responded with “steve jobs would probably say it sucks, and that he could make one better”.

that always stuck with me as something profound

Flat design would never happen, we would see an evolution from raster skeuomorphic to 3D graphic’s skeuomorphic

No notch and one single camera that can zoom but not stick out when not in use. Some design ideas would either come earlier or later like LED screens and plus size phones.

Steve Jobs was a sociopath.

I imagine we would be stuck with small phones and designs that would seem like innovation but really aren’t. Also iOS would be nowhere near as flexible as it is now. Steve was all about marketing.

We miss you steve

I dont miss him at all (I am not saying “I’m glad he’s dead”).

Much prefer Tim Apple Cook as the head of Apple.

they wouldn’t look the same every year for starters

I would suspect like other have said there would t be a new one every year and doubt the latest ones would be selling for over £1000/$1000 each.

That iPhones would never be made in China. Actually Steve was not even interested in selling iPhones in China then.