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I love how they gloss over that iPhone was out for a year before it got any kind of apps going. Hell, Apple was pushing "web apps" (glorified websites basically) for that whole year.

Damn it, the original didn't even ship with UMTS (3G).

The only ones that was hot and bothered about it was those already invested into the iTMS sphere, and MSM. The latter because for some reason their world runs on Apple computers.

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That's revisionist. The release of the iPhone was a huge inflection point in the industry. You can argue about how much was inevitable and how much was innovative, but you can't dispute that the iPhone led the way.

>> iPhone was out for a year before it got any kind of apps going.

It took time to gather enough users to convince developers and the carrier to support your app store the way Apple like it.

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