I understand what you mean but I'm just making the point that phones were a lot simpler and in my view much less useful. It's obvious that somethings might have

I understand what you mean but I'm just making the point that phones were a lot simpler and in my view much less useful. It's obvious that somethings might have been loss since then like how my phone reacts less well to me answering the phone or pressing number but the amount of new functionality in my view more than make up for that small annoyance. Real-time as in real-time computing isn't as big a selling point today as it was pre-iphone. RIM is making that mistake. QNX is awesome for what it does but I don't think people care about it's strong points as much as they do with the strong points of Android and iOS.(And that's what I meant when I twisted the definition of real-time to fit my syncing example. It's a different unrelated concept to what you were implying.)