• ShortFuse@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    As a PocketPC (WinMo) user before the iPhone even existed, I take offense to the claim.

    They pioneered capacitive touchscreen for ease of use, but I had ditched dumb phones years before iPhone.

    Note XDA refers to the old Windows Mobile XDA phone and then became an Android community. I was there for that transition and none of us were very impressed with the iPhone, but understood that it would be something for the tech illiterate would eat up.

    When Android came out, we went from Custom Roms for WinMo to Custom ROMs for Android.

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      1 year ago

      Not just Windows Mobile, but Blackberry OS, Palm OS, Symbian, not to mention the madlads hacking Linux onto feature phones (which eventually gave us PostMarketOS). iOS was actually very underwhelming when it came out, was(is) explicitly function over form and basically had(has) “it looks pretty and feels sleek” as its only selling points. Didn’t even have third party apps whereas most of its contemporaries had them for ages by then.