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by chucke1992
847 days ago
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iPhone has basically defined a category of mutli-touch screen devices. It essentially created the whole foundation how all the mobile phones went. It was a completely new consumer category of devices. Apple Watch was a success because it used iPhone as a moat. iPad was built upon iPhone's foundation. Apple is - by and large - "an iPhone company". |
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I was already using smart phones, handhelds, tablets, etc, for years before the iPhone. Apple entered an existing category.
The iPhone wasn't even the first capacitive touchscreen phone.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LG_Prada
Back in 2007 it was not seen as a completely new category or truly original. It was a variation within an existing category. At the time we did not think it was revolutionary, but of course it became the new standard.
Before they became an "iPhone company" they were an "iPod company", and that was also an existing category when it launched.