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by alextingle 4557 days ago
Don't forget that the iPhone was totally rubbish when it was first released. It didn't even support text messaging - which made it a joke in most of the world.

Fair enough, Apple continued to work on it, and by all accounts (I don't have one) has managed to make it a fine product. But let's not pretend that it was obvious to everyone that "Apple revolutionised mobile phones" from day one.

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> It didn't even support text messaging

It absolutely supported text messaging—at least in the US. Are you from a country where it didn't?

Erm, it didn't support Media messaging, the idea being that people would simply use email.