I had to look up the N95. Yeah, Wikipedia goes to pains to rattle off things that made it better than the iPhone, but then I looked at a photo of the device and it was clear why the iPhone "won".

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canjobear 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

This was the (juvenile) nerd take back then https://maddox.xmission.com/c.cgi?u=iphone/

(Nokia E70 not N95, but still)

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pfisherman 14 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

I has a Nokia N95. The phone itself was great. The problem was the dearth of apps. Nobody developed anything for windows mobile OS. Maybe Ballmer was not so crazy when he was running around on stage screaming “Developers, developers, developers”.

	▲	Tuna-Fish 4 hours ago \| parent [-]
		N95 didn't use Windows mobile. It used Symbian, and the reason there were so few apps was that the development experience was downright horrible.