Re: France Wants to Sue Apple for Planned Obsolescence

On 2023-08-02 10:51, Otto J. Makela wrote:
> Alan Browne <[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. Nokia had their Symbian smartphones (first models came out
> in 2001), they just didn't in the end succeed against Apple and Google.

And that is the point, really.  There were other computers integrated 
with phones even earlier.  An employee of mine had a Windows computer 
with a phone integrated into it some time in the early 00's too.

Point is none did it well.  Apple were the ones who got the secret sauce 
right (even though Blackberry had pretty damned good sauce - esp. in the 
business use case).

In the end of course - once Apple established what the current 
smartphone "is", everyone else followed.  Some didn't survive in the 
market at all.

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