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Completely disagree. You're just listing features and assuming they're all equivalent (e.g., 7 features is better than 5 features). What the iPhone got right wa
by sxg 3y ago
Completely disagree. You're just listing features and assuming they're all equivalent (e.g., 7 features is better than 5 features). What the iPhone got right was that it was actually intuitive for a regular person to use—it didn't feel like a business/work tool that you had to learn to use because you were forced to. Copy/paste, multitasking, and landscape mode weren't important for a v1 device aimed at the average consumer. What mattered was the overall ease of use, which can't be reduced down to a single feature.
- INTPenis 3y agoThe lack of those features made it very difficult to use for an advanced business user, of course that wasn't Apple's audience in the beginning.
- sxg 3y agoSure, but eye candy/exclusivity were certainly not the dominant reasons the iPhone succeeded. The early iPhones were $299 with 2-year contracts—definitely not prohibitively expensive for a huge number of people. Eye candy…sure the iPhones looked good compared to the competition, but there was nothing stopping the competition from making good looking phones too.