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Which characteristics do you consider distinctive? I think of capacitive touch with no keyboard, but such phones did exist. Costs for those kinds of screens ha
by jshevek 8y ago
Which characteristics do you consider distinctive? I think of capacitive touch with no keyboard, but such phones did exist. Costs for those kinds of screens had been coming down before the iphone launched. It was obvious we'd see more capacitive screen phones before the iphone launch, though Apple certainly accelerated it.
- timcederman 8y agoGesture UI (the audience literally gasped when Steve scrolled through a long list by flinging it, and applauded pinch-to-zoom), and actually using best of class components (except the camera). All the other smartphones then were laggy/poor screen/plastic shells/etc. Their UIs stunk. It was a huge step up with a bunch of key incremental innovations in a single package.
- natch 8y agoExactly. And he said Apple was five years ahead of everyone else, and I think he was right, or it may have even been an understatement, because trying out competing phones years afterward, they were still more clunky than any iPhone.
- natch 8y agoThere was nothing even remotely close to the touch UI Apple created and enabled with multi-touch.