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Re:iPhone X by seanmcdirmid on Tuesday September 12, 2017 @04:45PM (#15232439)
There were many not a few touchscreen phones before the iPhone, no multi-touch ones, and many crappy resistive screen phones that needed a sharp pointy thing to be kind of responsive.

Smartphones were just a niche before 2007 made them mainstream. The iPhone did to smartphones what the iPod did to digital music players, turning niche into norm.

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Re:iPhone X by fenwick67 on Tuesday September 12, 2017 @06:44PM (#15233673)
Many phones at the time had web browsers, games, bluetooth support, played MP3s, et cetera. Look at the Motorola Razr as an example. They were smartphones.
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Re:iPhone X by seanmcdirmid on Tuesday September 12, 2017 @08:35PM (#15234432)
Sure. Just very few people used them. Also, I know WAP looked great then, but today it looks kind of crappy.
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Re:iPhone X by mschaef on Tuesday September 12, 2017 @09:35PM (#15234766)
> I know WAP looked great then,

You sure about that? I don't really have fond memories of WAP...

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Re:iPhone X by mschaef on Tuesday September 12, 2017 @06:55PM (#15233748)
This is just proof that a litany of features doesn't make a product.
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