I get it, in 2009 smartphones weren't devices that everyone owned. But I still find the myopic obsession with "techie" approval as a harbinger of success pretty

I get it, in 2009 smartphones weren't devices that everyone owned. But I still find the myopic obsession with "techie" approval as a harbinger of success pretty narrow-minded. People didn't like the iPhone in 2009 because programmers liked it; people liked it because it felt like (and was) a revolutionary product! > They're so attracted to the iPhone that they can't leave. But they're looking for a way out. I know hindsight is 20/20 and all, but there's a much broader point that could have been made here about "what happens in a world in which entire software distribution chains are at the mercy of one or two megacorps?" Now that would have been a remarkably prescient gripe, and a much more accurate guess at the "mistake" Apple was making (if you can call the current backlash a "mistake"?)