Cool article. I remember being dumbfounded by how useless the original iPhone was in its factory-default form compared to my "dumb" Sony Ericsson - which IMO ha

Cool article. I remember being dumbfounded by how useless the original iPhone was in its factory-default form compared to my "dumb" Sony Ericsson - which IMO had much better J2ME support than any Nokia (it even had very capable multitasking!), and the apps were really smooth and quick, and integrated well with the phone... Even the internet capabilities were not new to me, Opera Mini could display ordinary web pages years before the iPhone. Though the large touchscreen was cool, that for sure - but the reliance on iTunes and all the locks felt like a serious step back from the SE phone which could install any app I downloaded; and the hacking community had already developed a huge set of tooling and hacks - I still feel sad that the local community has never recovered from the switch to Android, old hackers lost interest and young ones never got interested.