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"Ten years ago a prediction that this would be the future would have been met with scorn or laughter" ... this sounds like bollocks, I guess I am an outlier as
by stuaxo 11y ago
"Ten years ago a prediction that this would be the future would have been met with scorn or laughter"
... this sounds like bollocks, I guess I am an outlier as I worked on J2me apps at the time, but mobile phones where everywhere in 2005, the US was a bit behind, but certainly in the UK mobile wasn't the future, but the present - many of those people used apps and games, they just didn't know what an 'app' was although they used them.
- sixothree 11y agoSpecifically smartphones. The landscape for which in 2005 was absolutely abysmal. The iPhone was revolutionary in almost every way down to the silence switch and visual voicemail.
- Aloha 11y agoThe iPhone was evolutionary, not revolutionary, it pulled together a bunch of ideas from a ton of different places (visual voicemail for example was seen in various TAPI applications in the 90's) - what made the iPhone slick, was not what it did - a 2006 era palm did everything the iPhone did - its that it worked better than all of its progenitors.