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Apple had the luxury of being the first to sell smartphones, they could do it in whatever language they wanted. Android could never have tried to do the same th
by allemagne 10y ago
Apple had the luxury of being the first to sell smartphones, they could do it in whatever language they wanted. Android could never have tried to do the same thing.
- hammock 10y agoApple were not the first smartphones. Without even nitpicking on Palm, etc, you're forgetting Blackberry.
- dekhn 10y agoI wouldn't call the blackberries smartphones. They were feature phones where one of the features was a proprietary email system.
- scholia 10y agoThere were touch-screen smartphones with no keyboards before the iPhone... http://www.trustedreviews.com/news/O2-Unveils-Xda-Orbit-Smartphone http://www.trustedreviews.com/news/O2-Unveils-Xda-Orbit-Smar...
- hammock 10y agoBlackberry had a real OS, push email and third party apps. Everything the first iPhone had when it comes to "smart"
- nikanj 10y agoErm, Nokia?
- Sharlin 10y agoNokia's smartphone line was already several generations old when Apple introduced the first iPhone... The Symbian OS had a 67% market share in smartphones in 2006. The first version of the Communicator with 3rd party software ecosystem, the 9210, was released in 2001!