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onehandle

(51,122 posts) Mon Jan 9, 2012, 09:16 PM Jan 2012

Five years ago today Apple changed the world of smartphones and mobile computing forever. [View all]

Steve at his best. Watch this and witness how completely amazed the crowd was.

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A smartphone retrospective

This is what high-end smartphones looked like in 2007:

Smartphones were an established consumer-electronics market with devices that people thought were pretty cool, but often frustrating and with serious shortcomings and design flaws.

Then this happened:

http://www.marco.org/2010/08/19/a-smartphone-retrospective

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Five years ago today Apple changed the world of smartphones and mobile computing forever. [View all] onehandle Jan 2012 OP

Actually... tledford Jan 2012 #1

LOL! Windows Mobile 6! Yeah, that's the same. onehandle Jan 2012 #2

Facts are SO annoying and get SO much in the way ... tledford Jan 2012 #8

Interpretation of the facts is subjective. LanternWaste Jan 2012 #43

Really, and Apple didn't steal the concept of the MAC interface from Xerox, huh? How about the Treo still_one Jan 2012 #12

BZZZT. Wrong answer!! Gates had NOTHING to do with making PC's affordable for the masses. cliffordu Jan 2012 #15

Technically you are correct about the hardware, but it was the software and development environment still_one Jan 2012 #26

It was Steve Ciarcia, he wrote articles explaining how to build a PC clone bananas Jan 2012 #49

There you go! cliffordu Jan 2012 #88

You know I cannot buy a windows branded computer even today nadinbrzezinski Jan 2012 #22

Yes I did know that, but it was usable software that made it viable /nt still_one Jan 2012 #27

And windows, by your argument, came from IBM nadinbrzezinski Jan 2012 #28

Actually it was Kendel with CP/M where IBM and MSFT evolved on the PCs. The transformation occurred still_one Jan 2012 #89

PCs for the masses were because of Phoenix Technologies jmowreader Jan 2012 #31

I do remember the Phoenix BIOS in my sister's AT, 286 nadinbrzezinski Jan 2012 #32

LOL! iOS is rip-off of PalmOS. jayfish Jan 2012 #45

If that was true, then Palm should have sued Apple... onehandle Jan 2012 #46

This message was self-deleted by its author Tesha Jan 2012 #50

What are you talking about? MattBaggins Jan 2012 #52

I remember that phone! REP Jan 2012 #3

While I was a fan of Windows mobile, all the way to Windows CE nadinbrzezinski Jan 2012 #11

There is also an Android phone which is NOT a windows device, and a viable alternative /nt still_one Jan 2012 #14

Yeah but I know enough apps that run on apple nadinbrzezinski Jan 2012 #18

understood /nt still_one Jan 2012 #24

They may be more perception than reality MattBaggins Jan 2012 #54

No, there are no creative writing apps on the android nadinbrzezinski Jan 2012 #93

Ah yes, Windows CE Canuckistanian Jan 2012 #84

Can you get me one of those? cliffordu Jan 2012 #13

If I told you the guy who invented the refrigerator died, how would you react? Snake Alchemist Jan 2012 #4

"He's on ice now" REP Jan 2012 #5

BWAHAHA! +1 n/t LadyHawkAZ Jan 2012 #21

LOL bigwillq Jan 2012 #57

Very Nice we can do it Jan 2012 #6

Apple thanks you for the free ad time. marmar Jan 2012 #7

YES. Because after reading this post I am going to buy an iPhone. Nye Bevan Jan 2012 #9

Five years ago? Is that when Apple banned the first app they didn't approve of? Heywood J Jan 2012 #10

self delete cliffordu Jan 2012 #16

Flash? Five years ago, Steve Jobs that Flash was a 'bag of hurt' for mobile. onehandle Jan 2012 #17

You mean the one whose parts I picked because they were made outside the PRC? Heywood J Jan 2012 #19

All phones and computers are made by slave labor in China. MattBaggins Jan 2012 #59

This message was self-deleted by its author Tesha Jan 2012 #70

So you agree that they are not all made in China MattBaggins Jan 2012 #71

This message was self-deleted by its author Tesha Jan 2012 #79

More than aware MattBaggins Jan 2012 #81

two points nadinbrzezinski Jan 2012 #20

FYI: the plural of "virus" is "viruses" ... Puzzler Jan 2012 #33

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It is not virii MattBaggins Jan 2012 #69

K&R... SidDithers Jan 2012 #23

Good thread. Major Hogwash Jan 2012 #25

All hail the Great and Powerful Jobs! downwardly_mobile Jan 2012 #29

Actually, I drive a Nissan 350Z and I don't have kids REP Jan 2012 #34

So you have a Blackberry, huh? Joe the Revelator Jan 2012 #36

+1000. closeupready Jan 2012 #42

This message was self-deleted by its author Tesha Jan 2012 #53

I bought arugula at Wal-Mart earlier this evening...just saying. bullwinkle428 Jan 2012 #91

See, that's the problem right there -- arugula used to be a good upper-middle-class marker -- downwardly_mobile Jan 2012 #92

I think the Treo was the big leap, 5 years before the iPhone stevenleser Jan 2012 #30

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Yup. REP Jan 2012 #62

You cant point to failed products as great leaps forward stevenleser Jan 2012 #85

This message was self-deleted by its author Tesha Jan 2012 #86

No, I never asserted that. I said that the great leap forward was the Treo nt stevenleser Jan 2012 #87

great marketing eShirl Jan 2012 #35

with aid of Chinese child labor..... bowens43 Jan 2012 #37

This message was self-deleted by its author Tesha Jan 2012 #58

My Samsung Blackjack was working just fine at that time... JCMach1 Jan 2012 #38

iPhone satisfaction at 75%; closest competitor (Samsung) at 47% onehandle Jan 2012 #39

Samsung can take care of itself JCMach1 Jan 2012 #40

Apple's business plan is not market share, but profit share. onehandle Jan 2012 #41

Share price... I know which one I would buy! JCMach1 Jan 2012 #44

Whoops. NPD: iPhone surged, Android slipped in Oct. and Nov. onehandle Jan 2012 #48

How about worlwide sales MattBaggins Jan 2012 #68

Just wait for Samsung to tell Apple to piss off MattBaggins Jan 2012 #67

Apple is a major client, so unlikely. nt onehandle Jan 2012 #90

Oh brother Dreamer Tatum Jan 2012 #47

Traded my iPhone for a Motorola Atrix (Android) and never looked back. tledford Jan 2012 #61

Yawn... give me back a phone that actually works as a PHONE Steve... ddeclue Jan 2012 #55

This message was self-deleted by its author Tesha Jan 2012 #60

you mean the iPhones where if I hold them funny they lose the signal? ddeclue Jan 2012 #63

When someone ran a red light into my car, I was able to call 911 on my iPhone REP Jan 2012 #64

you are lucky.. ddeclue Jan 2012 #65

Yes. I came close to being killed by an idiot who can't see red (lights or my car) REP Jan 2012 #75

that's the definition of lucky having a working iPhone.. ddeclue Jan 2012 #80

No - walking away from Buick Lucerne vs Nissan 350Z is! REP Jan 2012 #83

This message was self-deleted by its author Tesha Jan 2012 #73

I have close friends who unfortunately do... ddeclue Jan 2012 #74

I have a close friend who was molested by her Blackberry. REP Jan 2012 #76

don't particularly like them either. I've had a Storm I and a Storm II. ddeclue Jan 2012 #78

I'm just teasing you. I am glad you have something you like (for real) REP Jan 2012 #82

This message was self-deleted by its author Tesha Jan 2012 #77

Oh, yeah?! Norrin Radd Jan 2012 #66

Can you play angry brids on that? MattBaggins Jan 2012 #72