acadia11
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You have no idea what you're arguing do you?
Who said Apple made the first smart phone? Apple put out a product that had ZERO equal when it was released...no other company did it that well, and that is why it found an IMMEDIATE foot hold. Same with the iPad...same with the iPod. You seem stuck on this "first" thing...it's hilarious, but not surprising coming from you.
And then the numbers thing? LOL! I'm done with this...what is your point here? That Apple didn't invent the cellular phone and that other companies sell more devices across the spectrum of their device line up? If you can't see how ridiculous that is, there's literally no reason to discuss it with you anymore.
Lets try this again to understand my argument.
1) the smartphone form factor known as the touch slab, would and was happening regardless of the iphone
2) apples iphone influence was not the form factor but interface understanding that a desktop could not be shoehorned into a mobile platform, the tech that made the multi touch possible had been in development for years , well before an iphone , apple purchased one of the key players in this arena on 2005, called finger works... Never the less it was apples interface namely aple buttons for nav and later on the app toolkit they released in 2008 laying the foundation, for the ecosystem that many love, this was the revolution IMHO not the iphone itself
3) was the iphone influential, absolutely to call it the greatest creation since the cell phone itself is absurd as their have been many many creations in the 70 year history of cell phone technology
4) you did not say apple created the smartphone, others incorrectly have, as well as others incorrectly stating that the multitouch interface was a creation of the iphone , this is wrong. Finally my point about numbers was to show that there are great many smartphones before and after the iphone, to indicate the industry existed before the iphone in large numbers
5) finally, get off your emotional soapbox, no one begrudges the iPhones place in history , that would be asinine , I just seek to qualify that place in history in the context of the cell phone industry which has been my career since university, so with that said my point before you make a claim atleast correctly know the history
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