Steve Jobs: The difference of stealing yourself vs being stolen from

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Steve Jobs: The difference of stealing yourself vs being stolen from - lemm.ee

iOS user: "DUDE have you seen [new iOS feature]? This is the bee's knees!" [10 minutes of gushing omitted for brevity]
Android user: "...Yeah, we've had that for 15 years."

Even the iPhone itself was just a more advanced version of a PDA or other handheld PC device that existed years before it. Logically, phones would have advanced similarly with or without Apple.
It wasnโ€™t an entirely new concept but it completely redefined what it could be. Look up what Android looked like until the iPhone was demoed.

HTC Dream with Android.

What was your point again?

HTC Dream - Wikipedia

Doesnโ€™t look like a black rectangular piece of glass to me. I think the point they were making was that there was a design paradigm shift when the iPhone came out.