Actually, I said that even a twenty year old computer running DOS with a 10MB hard drive was a more productivity tool took than my tiny phone was in 2005. Anyone can verify that by re-reading the post just above.
“Or, your assertion that the phone market did not change following Apple’s introduction of the iconic iPhone design”
Actually I have said REPEATEDLY that the because the first iPhone was a commercial success that it was an influence on cell phone designers going forward. These are only two examples of misquotes from you. There were multiple other misquotes just in your last post, but you have done the same thing throughout this thread and in many others threads as well.
If you feel you are winning a debate then why do you feel that it is somehow necessary to mischaracterize what people have said. You have done this consistently and repeatedly? I assume that you are just trying to make things confusing for people who may be only reading the last post or two in a thread. It is a despicable Alinsky like misinformation tactic that reflects very, very poorly on your character. Why should we believe anything that you post when you essentially lie even about what has just been written by others just a few lines above? That is just crazy... there is no other way to put it.
It is along the same lines as the most valuable company in the world constantly claiming they are being victimized by others when in fact they are the ones repeatedly restyling, tweaking repackaging the ideas of others. Apple is not the company who came up with the idea of combing a cell phone, camera, micro-computer, and media player in one device. Apple is the one who copied the work of others in this instance. You think that adding a multitouch input device is a major development. That is also just crazy... there is no other way to put that either.
I guess my sarcastic response in challenging you on your wanting your itty-bitty 6700 Windows phone to ever BE a productivity device and then you comparing it to the productivity of a DESKTOP device of YOUR choice seems to have escaped you because you had said:
"I used to joke that it was more powerful than the IBM Pentium laptop that I had been using for several years when I got the phone. And the specs were actually better... but it was a laptop and the phone was a phone."
I was pointing out the ridiculousness of you even bringing up the comparison of a micro screened minuscule phone with very low specs in comparison to a desktop or laptop computer. . . and you just missed it. Others picked up on it.
Actually I have said REPEATEDLY that the because the first iPhone was a commercial success that it was an influence on cell phone designers going forward.
No, fireman15, you have not. You've denied that, the couple times you mentioned it, you used it as a lead in to more negative comments. You've repeatedly claimed that other phones had those features first, denigrating that it was the iPhone that made that change. We've all seen you do it. You can't try and re-cast your claims now. Here are all your negative comments in this thread on this subject:
- Apple patented the meaningless fluff and then stole the actual technical achievements from other “smart phones” which came years before the I-phone. I guess we can credit the mental gymnastics of the formidable army of Apple lawyers for maneuvering this albatross through the American legal system.
- I applaud Apple for stealing so many good ideas from companies such as HTC, Samsung, and IBM and incorporating them into the first I-phone. But face it even phones with touch screens came out several years before the first I-phone. Nearly all technological devices become more capable and smaller or thinner as time goes by.
- I would dispute that the first i-phone had a revolutionary appearance, design or feature set. It was simply an evolution from previous devices that it “borrowed” its “features” from. . . These were all devices that Apple “borrowed” ideas from. And by the way... they basically all were rectangular with rounded corners. If common sense prevails, Samsung will eventually have the last laugh.
- And Apple did not invent multi-touch screens... what a joke. (Refuted with factual data from US Patent Office)
- Putting a capacitive touch screen as opposed to a resistive touch screen on a device with a phone included is not a revolutionary idea. It was simply evolution that someone or a corporation were working to get this combination to market. Claiming that this was some sort of stroke of genius is laughable.
- The I-phone’s huge marketing success obviously influenced the direction of cell phone designers going forward. But have you ever looked at the automobiles? My wife and I restore vintage automobiles... you can guess the time period that most vintage automobiles came from by glancing at their exterior appearance. It is the same with houses and clothes and of course cell phones. We started out with a car phone, then went to a bag phone, then a large cell phone, then smaller and smaller cell phones, flip phones, and then on to smart phones. And then the smart phones started becoming more powerful with screens that started getting larger, while at the same time getting thinner. That is called evolution of design and Apple was part of that evolution.
- There was nothing revolutionary about the first iPhone other than Apple’s successful Ad campaign and the number of consumers who wanted a cool toy with very limited potential. How much foresight does it really take to specify a slightly larger screen with a resolution that was higher than phones that came out two years earlier? How much foresight does it take to specify that it be narrower by leaving off a slide out keyboard? How much foresight does it take to specify that it have slightly better specs than the phones that came before it? And this hyping up its use of an input device that others thought of and developed first? It was not revolutionary... it did not even do as much as many other devices that came before it.
These are only two examples of misquotes from you.
This is more of your projection of what you have been doing all along. . . attributing to me, what you are doing. Nice try, but it won't fly. I'm done with sparring with you. . . I will not respond on this thread again, you are a waste of time.