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by klipklop 1113 days ago
People seem to forget when the iPhone 1 came out it was the first device where the browser actually worked with almost all non-flash websites.

I was on windows mobile before iPhone and the browsers were essentially useless. It was a game changer when safari mobile was a thing.

Apple killing off flash by refusing to support it was a great moment for the mobile web.

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> I was on windows mobile before iPhone and the browsers were essentially useless. It was a game changer when safari mobile was a thing.

I'm a couple decades late with this advice, but - did you try Opera Mobile on PocketPC back then?

It was good. I had no chance to compare with early Safari on iOS, but it was on par or better than the default browser on my early-2010s Android device.

It is so weird how this all was forgotten.