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> It's unquestionable that iPod unleashed the explosive miniaturization of technology, and paved the road for everything that we saw in the following decade wit
by jdmichal 4y ago
> It's unquestionable that iPod unleashed the explosive miniaturization of technology, and paved the road for everything that we saw in the following decade with smartphones.
PDAs were being developed at the same time as the iPod and probably have a much better parental claim than the iPod. The first smartphones -- the ones before the iPhone -- were basically PDAs with cellular modems, and utilized the similar OSes as their non-modem-bearing predecessors.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_digital_assistant https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_digital_assistant
I had an HTC Wizard, specifically the Cingular 8100, which came out two years before the first iPhone.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTC_Wizard https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTC_Wizard
- guiambros 4y agoAgree there were many attempts before. Heck, even General Magic created an iPhone-like experience over a decade earlier! But none of those early predecessors achieved anything even close to the scale of the iPod. I'm not arguing that Apple is the sole responsible for miniaturization of technology, but selling dozens of millions (and eventually hundreds of millions) of their gizmo certainly helped fast-forward the industry. Things would have happened a lot slower if it weren't for the iPod.