Comment on What DID Apple innovate?
PeachMan@lemmy.world 8 months agoIt literally created the modern smartphone market. The Palm Pilots and Blackberries of the day couldn’t compare: the iPhone had a FULL BROWSER. It was insane. The team developing Android saw the iPhone and had a real “holy shit” moment, they had to go back to the drawing board and completely start over in order to compete.
gdog05@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Full browser might be an overstatement. It was still a web full of Flash at that time. And it caused a pretty major limitation on the browser. If there wasn’t an app available, you were often SOL. I do think it sped up the demise of Flash on the web considerably.
ISometimesAdmin@the.coolest.zone 8 months ago
That's unironically an innovation right there
rottingleaf@lemmy.zip 8 months ago
Why? It was a decent technology.
ISometimesAdmin@the.coolest.zone 8 months ago
No, it absolutely wasn't, as can testify anyone who actually had to work with it:
https://www.cnet.com/tech/services-and-software/the-death-of-adobes-flash-is-lingering-not-sudden/
https://tedium.co/2021/01/01/adobe-flash-demise-history/
Exec@pawb.social 8 months ago
Not really. To have fresh dynamic content having to install a third party plugin is a bad take. Web development was stagnating due to IE’s market dominance.
PeachMan@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Sure, a browser minus Flash, but it was still a real browser. Most of the web functioned without Flash. And none of the competition even had anything close. It was such a revolutionary product that the iPhone didn’t even HAVE competition until Android got its shit together, which took a couple years.
zurohki@aussie.zone 8 months ago
This. Being able to actually open all those sites that used Flash was a big advantage of Android back then.
PeachMan@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Yeah, Android had that advantage LATER, when they got their shit together. But when the iPhone initially released, it changed the game.