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Originally Posted by monahan
Um...microsoft have been implementing touchscreen technology into windows mobile technology for years now, this has nothing to do with copying - in fact, you'll find that windows mobile 6.1 competes with the iPhone software on every front, and even beats it on the fact that its internet technologies surpass it.
I'm amused by the fact that the selling point for the iPhone is not the voice functions, but the fact, that in today's world of ultra mobile computers, you can browse the internet with it. I think apple probably win the award for most redundant gadget in recent memory.
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Well, if you ask me, the iPhone introduced one key feature into the mainstream market that is actually worth something: multi-touch. I'm fairly certain they weren't the first to do it, but I know that it was not a prevalent feature until the iPhone came out. Now, everyone's gotta have the multi-touch; in fact, the new Windows OS is going to support multi-touch on a wide scale. So, that's one thing that I can honestly say is good about the iPhone: it instituted industry-wide change that will actually have benefits, in that respect. Though, it really didn't do too much else that seems overly revolutionary to me. It basically took existing technology and made it Mac-ified, save the multi-touch thing. It's the third-party developers that are actually coming up with some ingenious uses of the hardware. I saw one app that used the accelerometer to recreate some pretty realistic dice rolling physics(shake the iPhone to bounce the dice around in a virtual box). It's little things like that that make me smile.