1. a Touch Ipod 2. Safari 3. A revolutionary phone He then goes on to say they are all one thing, the iPhone. It's easy to take this for granted now but it really was a revolutionary interface.
I'm not arguing on behalf of the patents validity, I was just pointing out how amazing iPhones were and are. They were game-changers.
All this "destroy the Android" babble from late Jobs is quite infuriating, since the iPhone itself was built on ideas already used on established products (Palm, Blackberries and Pocket PC), innovations which Jobs himself mentions on that 2007 iPhone presentation. Just adding a touch screen to it is not revolutionary, Apple was just "the first" to do it. The Macintosh in 1984 was revolutionary. The biggest problem is that the cult of Apple allows them to be considered an almost "legitimate patent troll" and get away with it.
As I mentioned, I'm not defending the "patent troll" behavior, -at all. But to dismiss the iPhone as a "game changer" is wrong imo.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tablet_personal_computer All they did was merge all these different technologies into a single, barely affordable, phone. And market it really really really well. I agree the iPhone is easier to use than a Blackberry. But it's not "revolutionary easier". Just "a bit easier", not enough to grant it a game changer status. (For me, at least). :)