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The killer feature of the iPhone, for me, was the ability to use desktop webpages on the device, instead of getting "mobile-friendly" pages (which meant somethi
by larrik 7y ago
The killer feature of the iPhone, for me, was the ability to use desktop webpages on the device, instead of getting "mobile-friendly" pages (which meant something pretty different back then).
I still think I'd rather zoom into a desktop page than deal with responsive designs, personally.
- ansible 7y agoThe "browse regular websites" was the killer feature of the original iPhone. Up until that point, browsing on a mobile device was either horribly limited or various kinds of impossible. The iPhone showed what was possible, and legions of people started to take mobile devices more seriously as full-fledged compute devices.