Well considering for the longest time, the iPhone WAS a glorified dumbphone, It's not hard to understand why some aspects still haven't changed much, despite newer, faster hardware.
@Drybones5 Phones with "cameras, touchscreens, bluetooth, wifi, and stuff" were shit before. Trust me, I used them. I had my old HTC Mogul and I told everyone how it could do everything the iPhone (first gen) could, and it could, but it had a resistive touch screen, a stylus, was fat and slow, and ran the old crappy versions of WinMo, even before Sense was created.
Apple brought capacitive touch screens and finger friendly UI designs to the forefront of the market and opened the door for all smartphones we have today. They added attractive hardware that wasn't an inch thick and people didn't mind carrying. Most importantly they introduced the App Store. Remember what it was like trying to find apps for WinMo before and get them on your phone? It certainly wasn't fun, and most apps sucked.
I can understand not liking the iPhone, that's your opinion, but you're just plain ignorant if you don't think the iPhone revolutionized phones as we know them today.
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Good, hopefully we can see better notification system on iOS. The one it has right now is like a dumbphone feature.
@pika2000
Well considering for the longest time, the iPhone WAS a glorified dumbphone, It's not hard to understand why some aspects still haven't changed much, despite newer, faster hardware.
@r34p3r
Yeah, you're right, Apple didn't revolutionize the smartphone market -at all-. *rolls eyes*
@UnspoknVendetta
No they didn't, they just made touchscreen phones mainstream and a massive hit.
We already had phones with camera, touchscreens, bluetooth, wifi, and stuff. Just they weren't pretty and well known
@Drybones5 And they were relatively hard to use. UI makes a massive difference, as does a great browser.
@Drybones5 "No they didn't, they just made touchscreen phones mainstream and a massive hit."
That is revolutionizing.
@UnspoknVendetta
Apple didn't. The people that jailbreak iphones did.
@gigity
I laughed at that. Thanks.
@Drybones5 Phones with "cameras, touchscreens, bluetooth, wifi, and stuff" were shit before. Trust me, I used them. I had my old HTC Mogul and I told everyone how it could do everything the iPhone (first gen) could, and it could, but it had a resistive touch screen, a stylus, was fat and slow, and ran the old crappy versions of WinMo, even before Sense was created.
Apple brought capacitive touch screens and finger friendly UI designs to the forefront of the market and opened the door for all smartphones we have today. They added attractive hardware that wasn't an inch thick and people didn't mind carrying. Most importantly they introduced the App Store. Remember what it was like trying to find apps for WinMo before and get them on your phone? It certainly wasn't fun, and most apps sucked.
I can understand not liking the iPhone, that's your opinion, but you're just plain ignorant if you don't think the iPhone revolutionized phones as we know them today.