iPhone was inevitable because it was basically a iPod with a mobile radio.
Its main selling point of the day (besides visual voice mail) was that it could hook into the existing ITMS infrastructure without the limitations that their previous cooperation with Motorola was saddled with.
Back when it launched, all but the highest capacity iPods were competing with cheaper and cheaper featurephones packing more and more storage.
The press was basically screaming for Apple to get a phone out the door or go down in flames.
I think the biggest turnaround for Apple was when they got Jobs off the "tech hub" idea he was riding. The idea that the Mac would the center of "your" (his) technological life.
This turned the company from a computer company into a consumer electronics company.
Its main selling point of the day (besides visual voice mail) was that it could hook into the existing ITMS infrastructure without the limitations that their previous cooperation with Motorola was saddled with.
Back when it launched, all but the highest capacity iPods were competing with cheaper and cheaper featurephones packing more and more storage.
The press was basically screaming for Apple to get a phone out the door or go down in flames.
I think the biggest turnaround for Apple was when they got Jobs off the "tech hub" idea he was riding. The idea that the Mac would the center of "your" (his) technological life.
This turned the company from a computer company into a consumer electronics company.