Yes there is, the iPhone has not changed the way we live our lives. And it is too young to be even considered as one of the most influential.
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Yes there is, the iPhone has not changed the way we live our lives. And it is too young to be even considered as one of the most influential.
Of course I did, trust me your posts are not hard to understand lol. Your clarification was almost just as poor as the original statement.
You still said it was one of the most influential device ever after your correction.
You sure?
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I said this....
"Its one of the most influential. The way people interact with their smartphones is because of the iPhone."
Not sure how haggling on my post proves Samsung is an innovator with smartphones with LTE/MP3.
The closing arguments of the last case were basic "samsung copied the look and feel" read them .
And sorry seeing as the most of the look and feel was already done (in some cases just not in smartphone, to me thats absurd to sue for)
Apple does talk about capacitive in that patent if I am not mistaken.
But they didnt steal an idea apple had been working on for years.
One of the patents already was working on smartphones before apple released iphone, the other was a quite general patent that had nothing to do with smartphones.
Apple is abusing the patent system .
And btw apple was found guilty as well as violating patents.
Forget about Samsung, I'm only talking about the iPhone now. The foundation for smartphone interaction was not started by the iPhone. It was a slow build up with what Windows Mobile, BB OS, Treo and Symbian have been building over the decade before the iPhone was announced. It is not one of the most influential device ever made.
Why because he is right?
Ipod and iphone or ipad were just really good versions of already existing products. Sorry I have never bought the "created singlehandedly new marktets" BS apple likes to claim.
No, because its a stupid argument that involves ignoring actual definitions and ignoring or minimizing the parts of the device that made it different than what existed before.
Fingerworks was keyboard that 2006 video shows it in a screen.
My comment remains the same, how can you say samsung copied iphone when others already did it before?
The same goes up for almost all the patents used against samsung.
I can't believe I am bothering with this but hey. So where is the cut off for one of the most influential? One of the most influential people in history. I could name 50 ahead almost anyone you care to mention, but that doesn't stop them being one of the most.
The point is, does it cause a shift in the world and the iPhone did. Was it the first smartphone? No! Was it the best smartphone ever made? Questionable! Did it bring anything completely new to the market? No! Did it put into a package a device that caught the imagination of the masses and therefore give traction to the mobile revolution? Absolutely. Is the mobile device revolution a defining element of our age? Yes!
So well done for being able to name 50 more important devices (go for it by the way... just for fun), but wether the iPhone is 51, 501 or 5001 doesn't stop it qualifying as being one of the most influential of the millions and millions ever made!!
Which has nothing to do with what I said.
Even if that is true, it doesn't change my point.
You mean putting more importance on certain features already done before or werent made by apple?
It was a great smartphone, the best up at that time. But changing tech made the revolution not apple themselves .
Seeing tht apple never even got that patent (which is why I brought it up)I actually wonder what your argument was?
I have no idea what point you are trying to make. Are you even aware of what is being discussed?I agree completely. What does that have to do with what we were discussing?
You should listen to your own advice.
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I've used those devices and what Apple brought in 2007 was 5 years ahead of the game. That's why those OSs you mentioned are no longer relevant.
The difference is that I'm not the one making ridiculous statements.... I get that you believe what you're saying but it's simply not true.
What in the world are you talking about? The only patent referenced in the discussion that we are having is Apple's patent that included heuristics regarding pinch to zoom.
I agree completely. What does that have to do with what we were discussing?
I think you're lost in the thread this was the starting post "what has this company ever invented - as in, launching a totally new and successful class of consumer product *or* a product that's so different from the competition that it completely changes the market?"
If you ready the thread you see a lot of people who seem to think apple invents just about everything and after a couple of months of reverse engineering samsung comes with the same.
I am simply still giving the same argument as before everybody looks at each others in and even outside the market and copies what works .
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http://www.pcworld.com/article/2045...cts-claims-of-apple-pinch-to-zoom-patent.html
US patent office rejects claims of Apple 'pinch to zoom' patent
And I also talked about the both patents in the lawsuit of this court case btw.
JB wasn't released until 2012 with Project Butter. Only then Android reached performance parity with iOS. Even with Project Butter, I question Android's performance at the time.