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by chii 1184 days ago
> Nothing "toy" about it, it was the most advanced phone on the market. The people who laughed were just the handful of idiots that would laugh because "Apple, har har har"

"toy" doesn't have to mean cheap or low-tech.

The point is that at the time, a lot of people didn't really believe that phones could be that revolutionary - and laugh at the iphone because compared to the blackberry, it has next to no functionality.