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It was a nascent market, and the first versions of Android and iOS were not significantly better than what was already being offered. Is the suggestion that w
by akira2501 4y ago
It was a nascent market, and the first versions of Android and iOS were not significantly better than what was already being offered. Is the suggestion that we wouldn't have put any effort into developing the ecosystem if Google and Apple didn't decide to involve themselves in it?
- kolinko 4y agoWhat? No, no, no. iOS and Android were night and day compared to Symbian and the other operating systems of that era. Aside from the very basic games and super-simple apps, it was virtually impossible to write anything significant for non-Apple/Android devices. Because of that, even before the official launch of an iOS SDK, there were more apps for iPhone (because people hacked it), than there ever were for Nokia. For WindowsCE, sure there were apps, but phones didn't run Windows really then. Only PDAs.
- BlueTemplar 4y agoHmm, yet Symbian had a third-party movie player that worked decently well... (finding it on the Web was a harder issue). Wait, also a whole freaking browser : Opera mini - don't say that isn't complex !