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> Apple's real innovation was the App Store The app store only launched in July 2008, same time when iPhone 3G launched. It was more than 1 year after the ori
by Const-me 10y ago
> Apple's real innovation was the App Store
The app store only launched in July 2008, same time when iPhone 3G launched.
It was more than 1 year after the original iPhone launch.
The original iPhone was a marketing success even being merely a feature phone by today’s standards: no app store and no user-installable apps at all.
> other problem was that the CE UI was not adapted for mobile
HTC launched its first touch-oriented windows mobile phone almost 1 month before the first iPhone. They called it HTC Touch and included custom touch-optimized WinCE shell. Nobody cared, and people just bought iPhones instead, the sales figures for that year was 2M devices HTC, 6M Apple.
Because better and touch optimized browser, and also because unlimited data plan. Back in 2007-2008, you couldn’t buy unlimited mobile data for any other phone.