• Milk_Sheikh@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    6 hours ago

    Their point was that nobody knew they wanted an iPhone back then.

    • Why would I want a gimped web browser on LTE data rate when I have a laptop with Wi-fi?
    • Why pay all that money for what is just a phone?
    • Does this make better calls than a beater 3310? No? So what’s the point?

    Back then the most feature packed phones were either some psuedo-gaming device, or a Sony Ericsson you acquired from Japan with no warranty and likely region locking.

    • Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      5 hours ago

      I can’t just pull out my laptop at my shitty gas station job I had as a teen in 2007… I wanted an upgrade from my fucking slide phone’s shit browser. There was a huge market for it already. People KNEW they wanted it and it delivered.