Think about it. Jobs gave a voice to every idiot on the planet. We wouldn’t be here had the smartphone remained a tool for business types or a toy for nerds.

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    13 days ago

    Regular people had stated buying them. I had a smartphone and at least one of my friends did a well. Even feature phones were getting so many apps they were converging on being smartphones. They were already getting Facebook and Twitter apps even on those feature phones.

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      12 days ago

      Symbian S60 phones were basically smartphones with java apps, I remember browsing the web at large before there was even a browser in the first iphone.

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        12 days ago

        I also remember people installing little Java apps on the woefully underpowered Motorola Razr.

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          12 days ago

          Yup, what I meant is that we were already on track of everyone having a computer with internet on their pocket, even if not as capable as the iphone at first.

          Blackberries were already there and pioneered a lot of the technologies that made mobile networks possible.

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            12 days ago

            Really the only thing the iPhone did is make those things more consumer friendly rather than business focused.