@fabiank83 @rodhilton Apple wasn’t the first mover...

@fabiank83 @rodhilton Apple wasn’t the first mover for smartphones. There were smartphones with touchscreens before the iPhone.

http://meta.ath0.com/2013/11/17/the-sony-ericsson-p900/

(Also, the iPhone was pretty crap at first. No MMS, terrible battery life… but Apple steadily improved it. And FWIW I’m typing this on an iPhone.)

Like 25 Dec 2022 at 14:13 | Wall-to-wall | Open on universeodon.com

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Fabian

@mathew @rodhilton Touch screen exist since the 80s or so but multitouch on phones with no keyboard was new.

25 Dec 2022 at 15:14 | Open on masto.ai

mathew

@rodhilton @fabiank83 Yeah, if you come up with a narrow enough contrived definition of “smartphone” you can argue that Apple pioneered it.

Apple didn’t invent multitouch either, of course; they bought it from Fingerworks. The iPhone was a minor improvement on previous smartphones in some areas, worse in others, using existing technology. That’s what Apple has always done well: take other people’s inventions and polish the design repeatedly.

25 Dec 2022 at 15:19 | Open on universeodon.com