[colechristensen]

On the other hand, iOS is popular because of quality issues like this. Android is only as good as it is because of the competition from Apple.

Before the iPhone you couldn't even get the "cool" phones in America, Japan had so much better things available and everybody envied what wasn't available here.

The reason we have any control from the carriers was the power Apple had and the stubbornness of Jobs.

A lot of the battles being lost by Apple are being won by groups who will make the ecosystem worse.

[margalabargala]

I mean sure, the iPhone did a ton to create the modern smartphone as we think of it. If you as a user care about that history and want to support what Apple does, you should buy their devices.

That doesn't make it a reasonable device for a sizable segment of the non-tech-savvy population though.