“A lot of people who don’t use iPhones like to dismiss Apple’s impact on the smartphone industry,” John Brownlee reports for Cult of Mac.
“Hey, we had PDA-like smartphones with touchscreens before the iPhone, so what’s the big deal?” Brownlee asks facetiously. “Such logic is patently absurd, but as it often does, a picture says a thousand words about how a thousand shitty devices did things before the iPhone came around, and how the makers of these crappy phones do things now that the iPhone is the gold standard of smartphone design.”
See the telling image, and get a link to another showing how Apple’s revolutionary iPad did the same to the so-called tablet industry, in the full article here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Fred Mertz” for the heads up.]
I had a Sidekick first. Was already better than Crackberry. I am not missing it.
I had Motorola flip phones and the like but was never impressed by the Treo’s and Blackberrys that looked like crap to me with really bad displays and so I passed. As soon as I saw the iPhone in 2007 I thought “At last, the long wait is over” and bought one and never looked back. Looking forward to upgrading my iPhone 4 to an iPhone 5 now as well as new purchases of a Mac Book Pro and upgrading from my first gen iPad to an iPad 3. Maybe even a revamped Mac Pro. Gonna be a great year for Apple purchases!
I didn’t see the “2 cans and a string” that we use in my office
If the iPhone hadn’t existed we’d be up to Ballmer’s “Monkey Boy Swinger VI” complete with a larger Keypad and a Stylus. Comes in dark brown, light brown and medium brown. Simulated Monkey Fur cover is extra.
There’s a link in the article to another photo set showing tablets before and after iPad. Both are worth 1,000 words…
I laughed out loud when I saw that before-and-after image. A picture truly is worth a thousand words.
Hey, that StarTAC in the before group picture was a decent phone…back in the pliocene era when moto could still produce good stuff.
The StarTac was pretty nice. I also had a V70 and a V80 Motorolas, the spin-around phones that they later blinged up into a totally unaffordable version, which is in that picture, as is the V70. The V80 had a camera and some nice features, and both fit the hand very nicely, but then, so did my first Nokia. Now, if only Apple would work on the phones we still have to deal with in the home….
The thing that really stands out in those photos? The fact that the Blackberry looks almost exactly the same in both!
I liked my Nokia “Trilobite” before I got my iPhone…….
lousy “web” access though
2007 was the K-T boundary. Apple was the asteroid.
Perfect metaphor! And a shout out to the geology geeks among us (like me).
Now I understand why I keep getting Iridium stains on my hands every time I use my iPhone…
I must admit I had my Moto RAZR until I upgrade to an 3G. I enjoyed the RAZR but EDGE (2G) Internet connectivity really SUCKED!