| ▲ | lfshammu a day ago | |
> Lowest cost of production is what that formfactor provides. Maybe, but to compete with the iPhone everything else that goes into the production of a smartphone would have been way more expensive. More compute requirements, better screens, way more software engineering headcount. | ||
| ▲ | timschmidt a day ago | parent [-] | |
Palm's Pre[1] supported multi-tasking, having multiple emails open at the same time to read and compose, unified instant messaging, copy/paste and myriad other features iPhone didn't have at the time. | ||