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> Could we have predicted the iPhone in 2005 ? depends on what you mean by predict. It was pretty obvious that phone/data would be added to PDAs soon. It might
by greggman 11y ago
> Could we have predicted the iPhone in 2005 ?
depends on what you mean by predict. It was pretty obvious that phone/data would be added to PDAs soon. It might not have been obvious that Apple would do it so well and take PDAs from a geek/niche thing to the mainstream.
- petra 11y agoYes ,i meant the iPhone as something Apple built.
- orkoden 11y agoAt that time the iPod was hugely successful. Phones got more and more features very quickly: web/wap browsers, e-mail, cameras, installable games. The Motorola ROKR was the first try at combining an iPod with a phone. It failed. Back then everybody was expecting an iPodPhone in the near future.
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- TomDavey 11y ago> It was pretty obvious that phone/data would be > added to PDAs soon. Indeed. I had a Handspring Visor with the cellular add-on in 2000. And then there were the Palm Treos, awesome PDAs plus phones with a thriving app ecosystem. What Apple did was add a touch rather than a stylus interface. And the rest is history.