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iPhone, far ahead???

Blasted thing was a featurephone with a fancy screen.

If it had been anyone but Apple that tried to pitch it, the press had been laughing loudly.

Nah, thing about Android was that it was a free smartphone OS while Windows PocketPC/Mobile had a pr device license.

And Google also offered the OEMs the ability to modify the look and feel of Android way beyond what Microsoft had allowed (the flip clock that HTC uses to this day on their devices started out as part of their custom launcher on WinMob).



>iPhone, far ahead??? >Blasted thing was a featurephone with a fancy screen.

Which is why they never caught on. All the competitors had to do was put equally fancy screens on their phones as well and the iPhone was toast. Or something.


Exactly. These kind of comments always make me think of that infamous HackerNews comment on the Dropbox launch announcement thread.




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