[bschmidt1]

Yeah it was only available on AT&T and you couldn't even send pictures (MMS). Hindsight is 20/20 - the people in this thread are overly glamorizing Apple and smartphones in general now because it's easy after something was already successful (the number of influencers on this post is vomit-inducing). In reality smartphones were a tough sell at first, people didn't like the touchscreen at first, it took a ton of marketing push to get people used to them that took years. I was 21 years old when iPhone came out and remember it perfectly clear - also just google sales data. iPhone was selling single digit millions in the first years, nowhere near the 100+ million Razrs sold, or the amount Nokia or RIM were selling.

"But they were new to the space!" "It was still a good start!" is peripheral