Great article by the way, glad to see all the drawbacks of that phone for so long, but strange that at that time the Apple cult were ONLY singing praises for it. And the lack of storage upgrade is STILL one of their drawbacks. I wonder how long it will take for them to add an SD card slot?
Like you, I’m no Apple fan. But the point of the post is the revolution that Apple brought to computing in the palm of your hand while also being able to make a phone call.
This was a true revolution. You can hardly blame the Apple cult for heralding it - even though you and I know our Androids do so much more.
Threw the last part in there so you can have company being flamed. Get out your flame suit.
Eight years ago it was light years ahead of anything else on the market. No other phone offered full screen surfing of the internet. None. Every other Internet experience on a mobile device was to crippled mobile sites. Not on the iPhone. The rest of the phones on the market were pains to surf the internet. . . The iPhone did not "suck" as you so blithely claim. it re-defined the smartphone completely. The point of this article is that Apple continually improved and added to the technology of the iPhone. They did not rest on their laurels. For example, the cut and paste was not a "slap dash" system but one that is considered the best in the mobile market. . . it works across ALL apps. They made it so that it would. That took time to get right.
SD card? Even Google has realized the error of supporting SD cards on their devices. They are not secure! Google has dropped support for SD cards in the latest incarnation of Android because it was making it difficult for Android devices to break into Enterprise use. They can easily be stolen, borrowed and copied, or they are a vector for malware. Storage upgrade? Why? As I have pointed out to you many times, for documents, music, videos, I have no need of storage upgrades. . . I have direct wireless access over WIFI or cellular to terabytes of encrypted storage on my home computer and my iCloud account at all times. Why would I want to stick anything on an unsecured SD card where it could be stolen, copied, or lost due to the flakiness of SD cards?