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Re:Ten predictions (2004) by hittaruki on Friday February 15, 2013 @06:07AM (#5225570)
I think he is talking about the actual devices rather than a "market for apps" for these devices.
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Re:Ten predictions (2004) by ryanbrunner on Friday February 15, 2013 @06:53AM (#5225701)
That doesn't really make a lot of sense. Cell phones existed in 2004. So did "smartphones". Really, the only major difference that you could use the word "market" to describe is the notion of a platform for general-purpose mobile computing, the key part of which is a general market for apps, instead of just baked in features on a phone.
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Re:Ten predictions (2004) by Apocryphon on Friday February 15, 2013 @03:58PM (#5228625)
I'd think that the iPhone made smartphones mainstream.
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