[grecy]

Did you forget when the CEO of Microsoft laughed it off and said it was crap? [1]

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eywi0h_Y5_U

[hoytschermerhrn]

I mean yeah, what else would the CEO of a competitor say?

[untog]

Like I said, there was a vocal minority. Did you forget that he was widely mocked for being so dismissive of an obviously very impressive product?

[icedchai]

To be fair, if you remember 2007, the first generation was lacking in many areas. You couldn't send MMS messages. Receiving MMS was awkward and was done through an AT&T web site. You couldn't install apps. You couldn't take videos, only photos. It was slow, etc.

My first iPhone was a 3G, but felt the iPhone really started taking off with the iPhone 4. It felt like a huge leap.