Re: France Wants to Sue Apple for Planned Obsolescence

nospam <[email protected]> Wed, 02 Aug 2023 15:11:02 -0400
Newsgroups comp.misc,misc.phone.mobile.iphone,comp.mobile.android,alt.cellular.nokia
Organization A noiseless patient Spider
Message-ID <020820231511025993%[email protected]>
In article <[email protected]>, Otto J. Makela
<[email protected]> wrote:

> 
> > As to "the consumer has rejected it", phones with integrated computers
> > of some sort existed before the iPhone and were largely rejected by
> > consumers are large.
> 
> Being from Finland, I'd like to point out that this view is a bit
> US-centric.

it is not.

> Nokia had their Symbian smartphones (first models came out
> in 2001), they just didn't in the end succeed against Apple and Google.

that's because they weren't very good. in other words, consumers
rejected it.