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Re:Apple iPad Gets Split-Screen Multitasking in iOS 9 by untog on Monday June 08, 2015 @03:07PM (#9681463)
I'd disagree. I had a smartphone before I got an iPhone and the difference was astounding. Every phone I had before had a wealth of options (a SNES emulator was my favourite) but was an utter mess. I could never have given one to my parents to use.

The iPhone was a triumph in proving that smartphone software can make a very real, very huge difference to a device, and that hardware does not rule all.

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Re:Apple iPad Gets Split-Screen Multitasking in iOS 9 by ceejayoz on Monday June 08, 2015 @04:06PM (#9682001)
> I'd disagree. I had a smartphone before I got an iPhone and the difference was astounding.

That's precisely my point, though. They came late to the game, but they did it right. Apple's rarely the first to market.

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Re:Apple iPad Gets Split-Screen Multitasking in iOS 9 by huihe9849hjjgkg on Monday June 08, 2015 @06:20PM (#9682870)
I agree.

That's because almost no one is first to the market. There is only ever one first MP3 player, radio or TV.

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Re:Apple iPad Gets Split-Screen Multitasking in iOS 9 by digi_owl on Monday June 08, 2015 @05:21PM (#9682525)
Because it was a featurephone with a fancy interface, not a smartphone. But media tried to claim that because you touched the screen to do stuff, it was a smartphone...
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