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Thing that people forget is iPhone was not an instant success - the first gen was expensive (for the time, for a phone), it had no app store, no 3G so the inter
by shp0ngle 3y ago
Thing that people forget is iPhone was not an instant success - the first gen was expensive (for the time, for a phone), it had no app store, no 3G so the internet was slow.
For a time dumbphones were still overselling smartphones.
It got better as mobile internet got quicker and people got used to the shorter batteries.
- guappa 3y agoIt also didn't support MMS, so you couldn't send your photos. Unlike every other phone with a camera that existed at the time.
- shp0ngle 3y agohacker news was already around back then. https://hn.algolia.com/?dateEnd=1187049600&dateRange=custom&dateStart=1139270400&page=0&prefix=false&query=iphone&sort=byPopularity&type=story https://hn.algolia.com/?dateEnd=1187049600&dateRange=custom&... funny to read today https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16394 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16394
- guappa 3y agoOdd that people were concerned about typing in phone numbers. I had written a visual basic program when I was a school kid to dial using the modem and avoid having to remember phone numbers. Smartphones didn't exist at the time. Also I had a friend who had an iphone and claimed that the assisted writing was as fast as typing on a computer keyboard. So we raced. I won, by far.