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> The iPhone itself did not bring anything new except a slick interface coupled with multi-touch. This is about as useful as saying "the space program brought
by danilocampos 14y ago
> The iPhone itself did not bring anything new except a slick interface coupled with multi-touch.
This is about as useful as saying "the space program brought nothing new except the ability to go to space."
> But the iPhone brought smartphones to the public's attention
Why?
Because the interface worked so much better than anything that came before it.
The market doesn't necessarily give points for trying. You win when you make something people want. People want things that work well. Until the iPhone, smartphones simply didn't.
- TazeTSchnitzel 14y ago>This is about as useful as saying "the space program brought nothing new except the ability to go to space." But the point is that we had already, metaphorically, been to space. We just did it better this time and went to the moon, too.
- untog 14y agoI think a better metaphor is that we'd already been to space, but this time we let everyone do it, not just astronauts (i.e. the technically inclined)