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by 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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they didn't even open up to 3rd party developers until the release of the 3G - over a year later (Jan 2007 - Jul 2008).
Symbian, Psion and PocketPC were what then?!
The OP pretty obviously was talking about the iPhone specifically.
From my understanding, the OP was making the typical statement that before the iPhone there was nothing on the mobile space.
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).