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Originally Posted by dorino
I also disagree that the iPhone innovated phones. Palm pilots, sony clie', those did that. The iPhone just made it sleek, modern.
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Are you kidding? Multitouch, ambient light sensor, proximity sensor, accelerometer, loads (for the time) of onboard memory, a great web browser, no carrier crapware preinstalled...no other phone had ever packaged all of that in one device, not even close. It was absolutely revolutionary in 2007, as evidenced by the fact that every other smartphone platform has adopted all of those features since. I've been using smartphones for years, and the iPhone was an enormous gamechanger. Can't believe that's even up for debate.
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... And the fact is, it could be more open. It could let me go into a command prompt. It doesn't, though. That upsets me.
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So jailbreak and get your CLI on. If you're the kind of person who wants a command line on your phone, you're the kind of person who knows how to work around restrictions on how manufacturers want you to use their device.