[briffle]

And my blackberry could already run apps, browse the web, and send quick messages to each other years before the iphone.

[krageon]

To be fair, your iphone doesn't really do anything interesting past what your blackberry did. It's mostly network effects, which used to exist for blackberries and now exist for smartphones. What they're used for by most people is almost indistinguishable from what they used to be used for.

[ubercore]

Not the same apps, though. In this comparison, it would be "my blackberry already runs iOS apps, but they're a bit slower than the new iphone".

Improvement for sure, and I'd bet on StarLink making a lot of money on this by volume, but it's not going to radically change shipping.