I guess it would be better to say they innovated the slate style phone. Android didn’t come out until 2008 and all other top phones used physical buttons. The iPhone technically only had 5 for general functions.
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atomWood@lemm.ee 6 months agoBlackberry did all of that years before Apple. Sure, they didn’t have a touchscreen, but all of the capability was there.
sparky1337@ttrpg.network 6 months ago
520@kbin.social 6 months ago
The LG Prada did that before iPhone too. More accurate to say Apple popularised it and made it a more cohesive package
sparky1337@ttrpg.network 6 months ago
Haha I had to look it up, but that’s the definition of “innovation”. Literally taking something existing and making it better.
DJDarren@thelemmy.club 6 months ago
My ex-wife had the non-Prada version of that handset, and it was actually pretty cool. Didn’t really do much more than any normal phone of the time, mind, but was at least technically a smart phone.
lolcatnip@reddthat.com 6 months ago
I had a Blackberry Curve and I don’t recall it having a music player. It was also so clunky compared to the iPhone is that it’s almost unfair to say it had the same capabilities. I’m not an Apple fan but I have to grant that their UI was a huge advancement over anything that came before it.