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Originally Posted by djkeller3
I don't mean to go off about this either, but it really frosts me to hear such biased garbage against the very company that completely changed the smartphone forever - Apple - and if it weren't for that, none of us would even have our Droids. Sorry Grainysand, but once again it took Apple to perfect what MicroSoft could not get right.
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And your assumption is that if Apple had not done it no other company possibly could have. That sounds more biased than anything else I have heard.
The iPhone was not so much revolutionary as evolutionary. Sprint had an apps store before the iPhone even existed, the finger touch use instead of stylus was borrowed from touchscreen PC's and yes, even WinMo. In fact, about the only thing that did not pre-date the iPhone was pinch to zoom. All Apple did was what they do good, put it in a pretty package and market the hell out of it.
As for your statement "...but once again it took Apple to perfect what MicroSoft could not get right." I have been a WinMo user, and have played around with iPhones, as far as what WinMo was made for, business use, it is by far the better choice. If you want to use your phone for entertainment, then the iPhone is a good choice for you.
Android would have surfaced even without the iPhone, Apple didn't invent smartphones after all. Android is as much a response to WinMo, Symbian, Palm and Blackberry as it is the iPhone.