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The iPhone was not a total revolution in phones the way you describe. They did not invent the touchscreen phone nor the smartphone. They improved them.
by fenwick67 9y ago
The iPhone was not a total revolution in phones the way you describe. They did not invent the touchscreen phone nor the smartphone. They improved them.
- seanmcdirmid 9y agoThere were many not a few touchscreen phones before the iPhone, no multi-touch ones, and many crappy resistive screen phones that needed a sharp pointy thing to be kind of responsive. Smartphones were just a niche before 2007 made them mainstream. The iPhone did to smartphones what the iPod did to digital music players, turning niche into norm.
- fenwick67 9y agoMany phones at the time had web browsers, games, bluetooth support, played MP3s, et cetera. Look at the Motorola Razr as an example. They were smartphones.
- mschaef 9y agoThis is just proof that a litany of features doesn't make a product.
- seanmcdirmid 9y agoSure. Just very few people used them. Also, I know WAP looked great then, but today it looks kind of crappy.
- mschaef 9y ago> I know WAP looked great then, You sure about that? I don't really have fond memories of WAP...
- mschaef 9y ago> The iPhone was not a total revolution in phones the way you describe. It was a revolution because it actually sold and was relevant to more than just a handful of high-end users. (I had phones with e-mail, web, and app capabilities prior to an iPhone, but those features were all just sideshows until the iPhone made them useful. The only use I can remember having for J2ME apps was to play Yahtzee on a Sanyo 4900.)