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I find that all technology was relevant to the evolution of smartphones. I think they are all necessary and the iPhone is no exception.
I see the Alcatel was indeed a mobile "slab" phone with touchscreen, and there may have been others. I wonder why it wasn't more popular.
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I find that all technology was relevant to the evolution of smartphones. I think they are all necessary and the iPhone is no exception.
Of course it's relevant. But people are giving the first iPhone credit it doesn't deserve it was not that revolutionary in of itself, it's all that Apple would bring to the table later on. Remember ITunes and Apps started with iPods not the IPhone.
The first iphones success was biggest push Apple made was interface and ecosystem, I think Apple pushed the industry in a certain direction here. Especially the melding of a smartphone as an entertainment platform.
Today I look at things like camera, replacement.
I think in terms of how we use our phone Apple as a forerunner but I suspect this evolution was happening regardless, but set a slower pace.
Everyone contributes in some way , Bberry as a messaging device and communication.
Apple on the entertainment front and life accessory.
Samsung has single handidly created the phablet market, and bigger screens are now the expectation by most...
I completely agree with your assessment though.
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What year did you buy your first cell phone?
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Sprint Spectrum...circa...'94 I think.
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That question was for acadia11.
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Okay, I'm much happier this go around. No hairline fracture or dead pixels and NO rattle at all.
I'm good now.
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You had. Dead pixels? Really? I've never had dead pixels on any of the many Apple screens I've had...laptops, tablets, or phones. I'd come to think Apple didn't allow dead pixels.
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One guy said dead pixels the other said fracture in screen. Either way it was super noticeable. I initially thought it was just dirt or lint in the screen protector I had. Eventually it bugged me enough, I pulled it off.
Oh well. It's better now.
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Did you get a replacement 5s?
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Yea. Will you keep the 5c?
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Henry Ford didn't invent the wheel or the car, but he sure as hell got it in the hands of consumers...Apple is the same way. The argument that they didn't "invent" the products they sell is ridiculous, so what? They figured out the way to get it into a flood of consumers hands...who cares who came up with the idea initially if they didn't get it out there?
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The iPhone was the biggest game changer in the history of cell phones. It's that simple. Denying it doesn't make it not so.
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So you are saying that smart phones didn't exist before Apple? Really? So smart phones were not on cpnsumers hands until Apple? This is inaccurate. While Ford made cars cheaper and easier to obtain bringing about the modern car industry, Apple did not do this in the cell phone industry.
Smartphones existed, many consumers already had smart phones, and more precisely Apple came to dominate an already existing industry.
List of best-selling mobile phones - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The largest cell phone dealer is not Apple by the way it's been Samsung and prior Nokia, interestingly , Nokias 5230 , from 2010 has the record of best selling smartphone or cellphone period at 150 million units.
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