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Collin Jasnoch wrote:
Lets back up here. We are talking about "Smart" "Phones".

The first word as it is buzzy has no real definition. As a consumer I would argue it being smart means it should be extensible and have easy integration with other systems. While those points were argued they never really came to fruition.



The original definition was phone + PDA. The latter included some level of being able to run 3rd party apps. MS and Palm both came into the early smartphone market through that route by bolting phone functions into their existing WinCE/PalmOS based PDAs. RIM created a device with both at the same time, with their special sauce ibeing that they also had the best back office stack to make corporate IT PHBs feel like they were keeping everything safe. I believe Symbian was created by bolting more PDA type features onto an existing phone platform but I don't know much about its history.

Post iPhone: a capacitive touchscreen instead of a resistive one + stylus, etc became a required feature as did lots of mass market and consumer apps instead of 3rd party apps mostly being limited to internally written LoB cruft.

Noone at the time ever said that palm, rim, etc were suddenly no longer smartphones just because Apple massively one-upped them. Trying to change the definition now to do is as much revisionism as insisting the Apple 2, Amiga, and Commodore 64 aren't real computers because they didn't come with mice or touchpads as standard means of control.
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