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by AlexanderDhoore 4571 days ago
I was surprised by the fact that it was an "internet phone". They didn't even talk about apps really. Just a few "widgets", like Google Maps.

The native, installed apps were just a by-product.
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mattmanser 4571 days ago
There's a great story by one of the engineers about this presentation, whole thing was still pretty prototype and crashed a fair bit:

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/06/magazine/and-then-steve-sa...

Also to put this in context, go watch the original Android sneak peek. Anyone who claims Google didn't completely rip off Apple is delusional. Android sucked pre-iPhone. Can't find the video now with a quick google.

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ash 4571 days ago
It didn't make sense to talk about apps, because there were no third-party apps at the time.
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tehwalrus 4571 days ago
they didn't even open up to 3rd party developers until the release of the 3G - over a year later (Jan 2007 - Jul 2008).
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pjmlp 4571 days ago
Symbian, Psion and PocketPC were what then?!
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untog 4571 days ago
The OP pretty obviously was talking about the iPhone specifically.
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pjmlp 4571 days ago
From my understanding, the OP was making the typical statement that before the iPhone there was nothing on the mobile space.
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freehunter 4570 days ago
I read it as "Apple didn't talk about apps because Apple didn't have apps". It's not good practice to call out things your product is missing unless you have a great reason for not having those things (like a stylus).
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