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// The functionality was really already there. The "disruption" was aesthetics, marketing and ease-of-use. And the fact that the old windows phones crashed dai
by crag 13y ago
// The functionality was really already there. The "disruption" was aesthetics, marketing and ease-of-use.
And the fact that the old windows phones crashed daily. Was riddled with bugs (some never got fixed) and from an accessibility point of view was a terrible piece of hardware. Good riddance.
Apple made the smart phone easy to use, and gave it much needed elegance. Over night it turned the smart phone market into a consumer smart phone market.
- nnnnni 13y agoBefore the iPhone, "most people" had regular flip or candybar phones that had very basic games at best and very little internet capabilities. Now it seems like "most people" have a smartphone of one type or another. That's a huge change.