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7. The mobile/wireless/handheld market is still at least 5 years out. Thank-god that was wrong! He wrote this in 2004. The Apple App Store was released in 2009

• hittaruki 14y ago
  I think he is talking about the actual devices rather than a "market for apps" for these devices.
  • ryanbrunner 14y ago
    That doesn't really make a lot of sense. Cell phones existed in 2004. So did "smartphones". Really, the only major difference that you could use the word "market" to describe is the notion of a platform for general-purpose mobile computing, the key part of which is a general market for apps, instead of just baked in features on a phone.
    • Apocryphon 14y ago
      I'd think that the iPhone made smartphones mainstream.