Haha, bit rich putting the WiFi hotspot in that list considering how long it took Apple to come to terms with tethering or anything else remotely flexible.

I really think that this list is a fanboi with little idea,

most of that stuff was already happening before iphone (which is what, like 5 years old) sure we might not have had the explosion of smartphones, but the hardware was already been used,

hell, name one thing (honestly) new other than marketing it at a different market that iphone has given us ........................................................what? nothing.

yeah im not hearing good things about iphones these days.

what copuis said

That article is shit

I don't agree with the iPhone diminishing handheld sales, which you can clearly see with the amount of money Nintendo makes off the 3DS and DS. Sure it makes things a lot easier having a smartphone that can play games, but there will always be a market for handheld games as they are a dedicated piece of hardware for playing games, where as a smartphone groups together several different functions causing lack of dedication to one.

iphones killed ipods?

i don't think the iphone "killed" any of the listed devices. it just doubled up the functionality.
iphones didn't kill spirit levels... laser levellers did.

Did you know Steve Jobs invented speech recognition with the iPhone? Before that it didn't exist.

Did you know Steve Jobs invented time and space. Before the iPhone neither existed.

This article seems like a mega fanboy piece of shit. IIRC there was a phone that pre-dated the iphone that looked similar, but Apple have an awesome marketing team and marketed the iPhone very aggressively. I can't find that particular phone unfortunately.

ironically, you appear to have been trolled by a non-troll, while claiming it was a fail troll! =]

was going to post this but i was on my phone and couldn't be fucked

Heh, only a newcomer to this kind of stuff would think this is/could be even remotely true. What copuis and Jim said. :)

With exclusive titles and awesome ports of classic games showing up all over App Store, who wants to carry around a clunky PSP?

That's a DS you tard.

Pretty much the only thing I'm completely grateful for the iPhone is the email integration for enterprise systems.

Please take the guys who made RIM out back and shoot and bury them :(

Pretty much the only thing I'm completely grateful for the iPhone is the email integration for enterprise systems.

Please take the guys who made RIM out back and shoot and bury them :(

but iPhones weren't the first with this, Windows Mobile had this long before iPhones, I had this on my old clunky HTC TyTN II (which was out about a year before we saw an iphone)

what was so hard about supporting a RIM sever, I mean the system was robust, and had been working for along time

(as an end user, I always like the way the blackberry worked, and I still maintain for content generation it is far better than most other products still!, I will concede that consuming contend it much better on a touchscreen phone (like an iphone, or pick a android phone)


edit>>> also, everytime i'm "fucking" pissed off at something, i like the fact that on the berry it fucking, or furkin works, and it doesn't ducking autocorrect

speech recognition has been a major military research project for years, fighter such as the gripen and F16 have had some for of those systems in use for over 10 years

Knight Rider had that shit in '82 so you and the military can suck it.

its not the iphone that was the big thing.. it was iOS. THAT is what launched smartphones into the mainstream because of its simplicity.

the line jobs used "the computer for the rest of us" is very true of iOS based devices.. anybody reading this forum would think "its too simple" and thats true because we are all fairly tech savy. however its the idea that your grand parents/parents/retarded pet monkey could use iOS that made the iphone explode in popularity not any hardware it contained besides the jump forward in screen (retina) iphone didnt really push anything... android phones have had the vast majority of tech advances far earlier than apple.

all this coming from someone who uses apple products all day every day.. from computers to phones and tablets...
i also own windows pc's and android devices.. so i swing both ways /shrug iphones are great looking devices.. however android (with the galaxy s2 and 3 primarily) have caught up with the stylish device looks and hardware wise far exceed apple.


loving my nexus 7 also.

what was so hard about supporting a RIM sever, I mean the system was robust, and had been working for along time (as an end user, I always like the way the blackberry worked, and I still maintain for content generation it is far better than most other products still!, I will concede that consuming contend it much better on a touchscreen phone (like an iphone, or pick a android phone) edit>>> also, everytime i'm "fucking" pissed off at something, i like the fact that on the berry it fucking, or furkin works, and it doesn't ducking autocorrect

RIM Servers were an addon for Exchange and required special setup configurations. Updating them has always been a tremendous pain in the ass.

Also if you run it enterprise level and a handset fucks up - say stops receiving email - the blackberry book says 'reset the handset' which means securely wiping it, re creating the account on the RIM server, resetting policy and then readding the phone - It's a gigantic fuckaround and I'm so glad I don't have to deal with them anymore.

iPhone/Windows phones/Android phones shit all over blackberry and their dumb system for connecting to mailservers and authentication. This is strictly from a sys admin/support point of view - I've never liked using the handsets either but hey each to their own - just don't run a RIM server.

lol? it didn't look to me like he was trolling, just being facetious toward apple fans ironically, you appear to have been trolled by a non-troll, while claiming it was a fail troll! =]

hahaha best thing I've read all week