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You could even argue the delay is what let Apple win. Apple jumped in the moment they could build a UI paradigm around fingers and capacitive screens. Its compe
by causi 4y ago
You could even argue the delay is what let Apple win. Apple jumped in the moment they could build a UI paradigm around fingers and capacitive screens. Its competitors had spent a decade building a UI scheme and software ecosystem around either trackballs and keyboards or resistive touchscreens and styluses, and weren't willing to throw that away when multitouch came along.
- ghaff 4y agoAnd there were plenty of people in 2007 happy to dunk on Apple for not having a physical keyboard and various other aspects of the design that didn't represent tradeoffs that people were accustomed to but turned out to be appropriate (for most customers).
- 908B64B197 4y ago> You could even argue the delay is what let Apple win. Apple won because of superior design and engineering. It became glaringly obvious when BlackBerry released the Storm one month or so before or after Apple released the iPhone 3G (and the App Store). I remember thinking it was a prototype when someone showed a Storm to me. Scrolling was janky, the whole phone was sluggish and slow and the keyboard barely worked. Blackberry couldn't even figure out how to get Wifi on the thing, so it was stuck using cellular while my iPhone was just streaming video. And of course, no apps. It was 2 years behind the original iPhone and shipped two years later.