> Nobody needed to be convinced an iPhone was a good idea

It still took a couple of years, though.

Of course in hindsight its rather obvious. But there were other smartphones and they were (on paper at least) superior in quite a few ways.

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ToucanLoucan a day ago | parent [-]

> It still took a couple of years, though.

I mean was that because of the iPhone as a concept or because it debuted as an exclusive on the worst cell carrier in the United States lol

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pqtyw 6 hours ago | parent [-]

Both, I think. The first iPhone was more of a prototype. No, apps and no 3G. It had a great browser but you could barely use it anywhere outside your home/office.

You had Symbian, Palm, Windows CE devices which had all of that and keyboards. I won't pretend it was 100% obvious to me who was going to win at the time (and I don't think I was unique in that).

	▲	brewdad 4 hours ago \| parent [-]
		The first iPhone was the "early-adopter" model. Later phones learned from its flaws and stabilized the pricing schemes for the general consumer.