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The iPhone didn't invent any of that. Lots of people, including Microsoft, did in fact build things as close to that as to the iPhone for years before. It's jus
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The iPhone didn't invent any of that. Lots of people, including Microsoft, did in fact build things as close to that as to the iPhone for years before. It's just that they lacked a certain something.
- rbanffy 14y agoThat something would be making the user experience "smooth". I had an assortment of PalmOS devices, played with WinMo devices and settled on a Sony Ericsson P-800 which was my main phone when the iPhone was launched. I could anything an iPhone could do, but I didn't have transitions, scroll inertia and drag to scroll. The P-800 was good, but the iPhone was great. It's very easy to assemble a set of functionalities. It's not easy to make it fun to use. That's what Apple did.
- almost 14y agoExactly. That's why it's silly to talk about iPhone as an "idea" that others could have had before. It's a Product, not an Idea.