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Hey, pretty good! Let me have a go. Ahem: The iPhone isn't "new". It isn't "disrupting" anything. Smartphones have existed for years and there are numerous bra

Hey, pretty good! Let me have a go. Ahem: The iPhone isn't "new". It isn't "disrupting" anything. Smartphones have existed for years and there are numerous brands out there that have a commercial proven trackrecord that can be obtained for cheaper than the iPhone we're seeing pushed today. What we have here is a case of "forward thinkers" believing that some crackpot idea from Apple is suddenly revolutionary because they marketed it best to this subculture of life. You're a sucker to believing iPhone offers anything revolutionary yet paying above market to have them feed you that lie. How did I do?

res0nat0r 12y ago
Great, except this is More like it could be one of those knock off iPhones from China that electrocutes you since they are "disrupting" the field by not having anyone who's qualified in food nutrition working on their product day to day?
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jschwartzi 12y ago
Smartphones did exist for years before the iPhone. Take a look at Windows Mobile sometime. The main problems with them were that the screens sucked.
- jasonisalive 12y ago
  (That was the point)
- Decade 12y ago
  The whole system sucked. Those things has little memory or CPU. Windows Mobile didn't have memory protections or preemptive multitasking. Pocket Internet Explorer sucked even worse than Internet Explorer 6. It was challenging to find apps for them. But the real disruption was the disruption in the carrier relationship. A lot of smartphones didn't have WiFi, and the carriers would nickel and dime you for every kilobyte. Apple convinced them to do the flat rates and big chunks of data. Apple introduced manufacturer control of the user experience, instead of Verizon disabling every feature that would allow you to avoid the carrier's fees. When the iPhone was announced, the feature I was most impressed by was the visual voicemail. Voicemail was so tedious and inefficient before iPhone.

res0nat0r 12y ago

Great, except this is More like it could be one of those knock off iPhones from China that electrocutes you since they are "disrupting" the field by not having anyone who's qualified in food nutrition working on their product day to day?

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jschwartzi 12y ago

Smartphones did exist for years before the iPhone. Take a look at Windows Mobile sometime. The main problems with them were that the screens sucked.

jasonisalive 12y ago
(That was the point)
Decade 12y ago
The whole system sucked. Those things has little memory or CPU. Windows Mobile didn't have memory protections or preemptive multitasking. Pocket Internet Explorer sucked even worse than Internet Explorer 6. It was challenging to find apps for them. But the real disruption was the disruption in the carrier relationship. A lot of smartphones didn't have WiFi, and the carriers would nickel and dime you for every kilobyte. Apple convinced them to do the flat rates and big chunks of data. Apple introduced manufacturer control of the user experience, instead of Verizon disabling every feature that would allow you to avoid the carrier's fees. When the iPhone was announced, the feature I was most impressed by was the visual voicemail. Voicemail was so tedious and inefficient before iPhone.