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Then What Is It?

Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, October 10 2012 @ 02:23 PM EDT

> There were no iPhone watershed moment created by Apple.

Agreed that all the developments and components were in place,
but in 2007 the big market was feature phones, and smart phones
were a curiosity. Who can say if Samsung or HTC or LG could have
come up with something like the iPhone, as quickly and desirable.
And the Galaxy S3 is something like the iPhone in the eyes of
the mass market. A thought experiment for you, how many of
the general public (not us geeks here) would have known the
difference absent this case?

Apple was the tipping point in the smartphone market. Somebody
had to do it and the incumbents were all tied up in their legacy markets.
This is frankly admitted in the Samsung internal documents used
in this case.

[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]

People is not quite as stupid as you think! n/t - Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, October 10 2012 @ 03:25 PM EDT

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