GAMECHANGER
The iPhone was unveiled 10 years ago today.
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Hasnt changed much since
However, every other smartphone that existed back then either ceased to exist or was updated to look like an iPhone. A common "whining" theme on many Android forums every time a new Android phone is released is "it looks just like an iPhone now".
My personal view is that this confirms that Apple was the first to find this winning iphone formula, while everybody else was in the dark before Apple iPhone came.
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Wrong: the Samsung note.
However, every other smartphone that existed back then either ceased to exist or was updated to look like an iPhone. A common "whining" theme on many Android forums every time a new Android phone is released is "it looks just like an iPhone now".
My personal view is that this confirms that Apple was the first to find this winning iphone formula, while everybody else was in the dark before Apple iPhone came. -
Apple's iPod, iPhone and iPad just wouldn't be possible without Samsung's components division.
Samsung supplied the original hard drives and then flash memory and DRAM to make iPods, iPads and iPhones possible. They also supplied the A series processors and the displays, including the first Retina displays. So basically everything on the hardware side for Apple came from Samsung R&D.
Where Apple truly excels is in sales and marketing and pleasing aesthetics for icon design, fonts and colors in iOS and desktop OS.
