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		crag on Oct 2, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Competing with a Mac // The functionality was really already there. The "disruption" was aesthetics, marketing and ease-of-use. And the fact that the old windows phones crashed daily. Was riddled with bugs (some never got fixed) and from an accessibility point of view was a terrible piece of hardware. Good riddance. Apple made the smart phone easy to use, and gave it much needed elegance. Over night it turned the smart phone market into a consumer smart phone market.

nnnnni on Oct 2, 2013 [–]

Before the iPhone, "most people" had regular flip or candybar phones that had very basic games at best and very little internet capabilities.

Now it seems like "most people" have a smartphone of one type or another. That's a huge change.

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