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Old 04-04-2010, 09:03 PM   #120
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Originally Posted by stustaff View Post

So apple started a brand new market for apps and got 20k
Droid piggy backed on this (how many of those apps and devs and companies existed because of apple) and got 30k.
Selling the apps from the handset is not the same as 'starting a brand new market'. I was buying and using mobile apps long before the iPhone was available, and Windows Mobile had around 30,000 apps before the iPhone had 1.

Android has not piggybacked on the iPhone any more than any technology piggybacks on previous technology.

Apple's marketing team sure does a great job of convincing the world they invented the phone and tablet PC.
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