People always down vote when I point that out as well lol. Windows mobile was already moving towards icon based UIs pre iPhone, so while the UI was a definite improvement it wasn’t the revolution it’s made out to be. The iPhone 1 had no app store or 3g so was not good for emails and, back in 2007 when flash still mattered, couldn’t access most of the Internet where windows phone could. I’m pretty sure it was successful purely based on the iPods popularity, at least until the iPhone 3gs and app store came out and it iPhone became arguably a better smartphone than those that came before.
Comment on Apple users bash new iPhone 15: ‘Innovation died with Steve Jobs’
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 9 months agoIt was not revolutionary in the sense of technology, it was revolutionary in the sense of getting the general public to understand and accept the idea of a smartphone.
bigschnitz@lemmy.world 9 months ago
HellAwaits@lemm.ee 9 months ago
It was not revolutionary in the sense of technology, it was revolutionary in the sense of getting the general public to understand and accept the idea of a smartphone.
Translation: “I blindly hate Apple and I have no idea what I’m talking about.”
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Um… I’m on a Macbook right now and I have an iPhone.
Niiru@feddit.de 9 months ago
So they had “innovative marketing”, ok.