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Re:Brave New Phone Call by najra on Tuesday September 23, 2014 @03:23AM (#8354374)
iPhone? :P
Re:Brave New Phone Call by smcl on Tuesday September 23, 2014 @05:46AM (#8354668)
I think GP meant "product" in a What'sApp\Facebook\Instagram sense of the word. These all (as far as I recall) sort of spread without big "this is gonna change everything" hype\announcements (up to a certain point, I've no idea what that point was - something between ten and a hundred million users?), they just started getting used by people because they were fun and engaging.
Re:Brave New Phone Call by sounds on Tuesday September 23, 2014 @07:00AM (#8354788)
Good call.

The iPhone might be the exception that proves the rule. The original iPod was OS X only, didn't have as much space as a nomad, etc. But people used it organically and pretty soon it took over.

The iPhone would probably have been Samsung's instead of Apple's without the whole iPod/iTunes/Movies business.