Apple iPhone Will Fail in a Late, Defensive Move (2007)

Re:Apple iPhone Will Fail in a Late, Defensive Move (2007) by coldtea on Tuesday March 18, 2014 @05:29AM (#7420947)

>Ballmer and others were not wrong to laugh about the iPhone because it was just a bad smartphone compared to what was available at that time for someone that wanted to do more than browse the web.

That's totally untrue. It destroyed everything of the time -- I know, I had smartphones since 2000, Sony stuff, Nokia stuff etc.

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Re:Apple iPhone Will Fail in a Late, Defensive Move (2007) by nicholassmith on Tuesday March 18, 2014 @06:21AM (#7421109)

Same here, I've been using WinMo for quite a few revisions and prior to that I had two Treos. The iPhone was an excellent smartphone that was as usable, if not more, than the others for day to day use.

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Re:Apple iPhone Will Fail in a Late, Defensive Move (2007) by mercer on Tuesday March 18, 2014 @11:43AM (#7422581)

It was bad in many ways, but extremely good in (at that time) unexpected ways. I remember I held off from buying the first one when it came out because of the bad things (the camera, for one), but from the moment the iPhone was unveiled I knew I would buy one as soon as these things improved. I think many others thought the same thing.

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Re:Apple iPhone Will Fail in a Late, Defensive Move (2007) by blub on Tuesday March 18, 2014 @03:46PM (#7424506)

iPhone 1, the one without appstore and 3G destroyed everything? :) I would say a phone like e90 or P1i let you do much more than the iPhone allowed you to, it was barely smart in any way.

I don't understand why people like to rewrite history. At the behinning the fight wasn't at all decided.

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