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Apple took the smart phone from something used by technologists and other tech oriented people, and turned it into a mass market appliance accessible to everyon

• laumars 12y ago
  If Apple held a majority market share, then I might agree, but as I said before, Symbian et al had a larger market share so they must have had some degree of mass market appeal as well. edit: just to clarify. I do agree that the iPhone deserve a place in the history books because it did change the landscape significantly. But my point was that the iPhone wasn't the first phone of it's ilk (probably the best all rounder and definitely best at specific criteria, but those are point I'm enjoying discussing here). In light of that, if the iPhone deserves a place then equally the handsets that pioneered much of the technology and paradigms which Apple beautifully combined, those other handsets deserves a mention too (like how scientific papers based on original research still need to draw from the pool of existing research and thus even new theories owe credit other publications)
  • coob 12y ago
    Look at browser stats. Symbian was irrelevant compared to the iPhone is terms of popular usage as an actual internet device.
    • laumars 12y ago
      I accept that, but to a lot of people a smart phone is more than just a web browser.
  • nicholassmith 12y ago
    Symbian had a larger market as Nokia were throwing it on as many devices as they could, irregardless of whether it worked well so they saturated the market. Plus they were commonly called featurephones and not smartphones.
    • laumars 12y ago
      Good point.