03-06-2013, 11:26 PM
Carnos Jax wrote: Among the geeks/techies/nerds etc. But it was appealing to this subset of society that has kept widespread adoption of technology at bay for so long.
How do people pushing forward the technology to the masses somehow limit such technology from reaching the masses? There was nothing hard about using a Palm phone when compared to the PCs (either WIndows, Mac, or Linux distro) that people were already using on a regular basis.
There's nothing wrong with someone expressing themselves in written form, especially in something so well reasoned and carefully considered. A tech writer writing about tech isn't something to be puzzled over, is it?
100 million Symbian smartphones shipped before the iPhone was even launched. Probably more by the time the iPhone launched, but that's the number given in late 2006. The masses were already buying phones, a lesser amount were smartphones, but even with the lesser amount, smartphones were selling in the tens of millions. If you consider the feature phones or near smartphone category like Sidekicks and S40 Nokias, the numbers are even larger. If you add up the number of higher end feature phones, smartphones, and PDAs, I think you'll find more non iPhone influenced devices out there than you imagined.
One of my clients, an older lady who isn't afraid of her computers, but not comfortable enough not to need my occasional assistance, had a PDA for years before the iPhone was announced. My dad, admittedly a guy who likes technology and a programmer later in life, had a smartphone in 2001 or so, Palm powered Kyocera, and then didn't have another smartphone until around 2011, an LG Android. There's a lot going on in this industry pre and post iPhone.