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He wasn’t wrong in 2007. Very few people were willing to fork over money for an iPhone for personal use. $500 phones were for business. The world changed in t
by brudgers 3y ago
He wasn’t wrong in 2007.
Very few people were willing to fork over money for an iPhone for personal use. $500 phones were for business.
The world changed in the next five years. Streaming video, widespread 802.11N and 3g changed the calculus.
- halJordan 3y agoThat's not the world i remember, i remember iphones being all the rage, and regularly selling out and drawing insane lines at launch locations. I also remember the people who couldn't stand touchscreens or the beer-pouring app, but that doesn't obviate the iphone.
- brudgers 3y agoI don’t disagree. Your world was probably different than mine. The people in my social circle had different priorities. I didn’t know anyone with an iPhone until late in 2008.
- seanthemon 3y agoYep I saw my first Iphone 1st gen from a friend that visited in a 2008 (I was wowed), two years later we bought 5 for the family, insane times..