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Re:Android permissions and hypocrisy by pjc50 on Monday January 23, 2017 @06:51AM (#13461531)
If I remember rightly, the real innovation was the "app store" (even if that came slightly after the iPhone launch). It was surprisingly hard to actually get S60 apps.
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Re:Android permissions and hypocrisy by pjmlp on Monday January 23, 2017 @07:44AM (#13461786)
In Europe it was quite easy, as most operators had their own store and even Ovi Store was available since 2007, one year early than iPhone's one.
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Re:Android permissions and hypocrisy by willvarfar on Monday January 23, 2017 @07:57AM (#13461848)
When the iphone was launched you couldn't make native apps.

http://www.theverge.com/2011/12/13/2612736/ios-history-iphon...

What the iphone1 did was look and feel gorgeous. It was entirely the user experience that made it an obvious winner that made Symbian obsolete overnight.

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Re:Android permissions and hypocrisy by pjmlp on Monday January 23, 2017 @09:00AM (#13462166)
Only for those that did not use a Nokia N95, Nokia Communicator or Nokia 7700 (one of the first touch screen mobiles), hence why I was hardly convinced back then.
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Re:Android permissions and hypocrisy by willvarfar on Monday January 23, 2017 @10:39AM (#13462889)
And I was saying the iphone didn't start out with an appstore...
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