For better or worse the iPhone hit the market today 16 years ago changing the world forever.
this post was submitted on 29 Jun 2023
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And it, thankfully, changed the trajectory of the entire industry. Phones were TERRIBLE before the competition picked up.
The industry was terrible but there were lots of good phones out there. The Samsung BlackJack was a pretty awesome device, and HTC was making some pretty compelling devices for Windows Mobile. Then the BlackBerry, of course, was a great device in a lot of ways too; very functional given the limitations of a hardware keyboard.