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Marco.org: A smartphone retrospective

great point by Marco. as usual.

This is what high-end smartphones looked like in 2007:

Smartphones were an established consumer-electronics market with devices that people thought were pretty cool, but often frustrating and with serious shortcomings and design flaws.

Then this happened:

Other manufacturers had…

Cite Arrow reblogged from marco
Tags: tablet ipad iphone android 469 notes | Posted on Aug 21, 2010
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    doesn’t invent new products, they just make them...way they should have been made.
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    This is what high-end smartphones looked like in 2007: Smartphones were an established consumer-electronics market with...
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    This is so true… i wonder what the new bandwagon will be?
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    de recente evolutie van de smartphone, en de komende revolutie van de Tablet.
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    Speculation by Marco Arment (lead developer...have on the netbook market
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    Marco Arment asks if the iPad...iPhone did to smartphone design.
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    I’m sort of excited for what might come up next.
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