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And it, thankfully, changed the trajectory of the entire industry. Phones were TERRIBLE before the competition picked up.
I realize people are downvoting you, likely due to a lot of the shady crap apple is doing-
But, your comment is actually correct.
Perhaps, many people were younger and don't remember that time too well.
At that time, every vendor had its own proprietary OS. There were no generally accessible app stores on phones. Hell, half of the phones didn't really have true internet either. There used WAP
Around the time of the iPhone, I remember having these various phones-
Then- we got the iPhone. These, actually had a interface which didn't suck.
It had an app store. You could download thousands of games, and apps. For its time, this was actually quite revolutionary.
And- we also quickly found out about rooting the iPhones, to add features such as... being able to organize icons into folders. etc. Good old cyndia.
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