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This is a predictable response that is trivially wrong. Originally the iPhone required iTunes to set it up. Is it an “accessory”?
by abalone 7y ago
This is a predictable response that is trivially wrong. Originally the iPhone required iTunes to set it up. Is it an “accessory”?
- bscphil 7y agoiTunes was released for Windows in 2003, so it was available for free on all major platforms. The iPhone was released in 2007. If iTunes had only been available on Macs, it would have been perfectly reasonable to consider the iPhone a "Mac accessory", but it wasn't, so it isn't.
- abalone 7y agoNah, that’s a different sense of the word “accessory”. Trapped in the ecosystem is one thing. But the question here is whether it’s a substantial, standalone product.