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Most people don't know this, but Nokia had hit upon a lot of these ideas before the iPhone, but didn't act on it : https://venturebeat.com/2010/09/27/nokia-had-
by ajoy 6y ago
Most people don't know this, but Nokia had hit upon a lot of these ideas before the iPhone, but didn't act on it : https://venturebeat.com/2010/09/27/nokia-had-iphone-like-prototype-in-2004-but-killed-it/ https://venturebeat.com/2010/09/27/nokia-had-iphone-like-pro...
They were an innovative company, till internal culture or complacency killed it (conjecture).
- AceJohnny2 6y agoI still fondly remember some Nokia exec's rebuttal of capacitive-sensing touchscreen technology in favor of resistive, which allows pressure sensing [1] but not multitouch. It was exemplary of Nokia being out-of-touch (heh). [1] lol iPhone "3D Touch"
- TwoBit 6y agoSame thing happened with Microsoft. Theirs got killed supposedly because it didn't run Windows (which of course is a bad idea for a handheld device).
- ineedasername 6y agoI had (I think 2 different) windows phones-- something like the XV6600 [0] that actually ran some flavor of Windows Mobile OS. I liked it. It was the first phone I had that could actually browse real websites. Badly, but it worked. Apple succeeded not because they had features never before seen (though the capacitive touch screen was critical) but a far superior UI. The windows phone worked, but it was a pain to use. [0] http://pocketpccentral.net/audv_xv6600.htm http://pocketpccentral.net/audv_xv6600.htm