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> it's impossible to get on board now

To be fair people said the same thing thing to Apple when they decided to enter the phone market




The "smartphone" was still in its infancy back then.

Today the technology is mature enough, so it's more about the (small) gimmicks like fingerprint scanners.


Fingerprint scanners changed the game again for me. Saves countless times of typing the pin code over and over.


All the innovations the iPhone had were also called gimmicks by industry leaders at the time.




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