> And this is because before the iPhone, every single cellphone out there > was an utter piece of junk. Terrible UI's; hard to sync to address > books;
this is simply not true. I had a couple of smartphones for years before the iPhone. They ran Windows Mobile and synced perfectly with Outlook on my desktop, and had pretty much all the functionality I have now on my Android phone. In fact, they synched far better than the Android. The advantages of the newer stuff are better wifi (wireless sync is good) and better internet. But the older phones had good operating systems for their day and for the technology available back then, like needing a stylus for screen touching. B > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of > Bruce Walker > Sent: 28 August 2012 02:36 > To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List > Subject: Re: OT: Jury verdict is for Apple (vs Samsung) > > And this is because before the iPhone, every single cellphone out there > was an utter piece of junk. Terrible UI's; hard to sync to address > books; dozens of models from each manufacturer, all different in > pointless ways. The Blackberrys could at least access email, but they > had a UI straight out of the line-oriented past. > > Apple presented a new thing: a general purpose computer with a phone > builtin. It had an elegant and well considered UI that folks could > actually use. They re-thought and redefined the entire product > category. > > Initially it was ridiculed and the big journalists predicted that Apple > would be retreating with their tail curled under in a year or less. > When that didn't happen and sales were seen to increasing faster than > any cellphone ever did, the copying started. > > > On Mon, Aug 27, 2012 at 9:18 PM, Daniel J. Matyola > <[email protected]> wrote: > > That is what struck me as well. Before the iPhone, there were lots > of > > different cell phones, and they each looked and operated differently. > > Once the iPhone came out, every manufacturer simply copied the way it > > looked and the way it worked. > > > > Dan Matyola > > http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/danieljmatyola > > > > On Mon, Aug 27, 2012 at 9:13 PM, Stan Halpin > > <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I am surprised to see how many non-Apple phones look so much like > Apple. You would think that other companies designers could do > something other than copy. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
