starman@programming.dev to Asklemmy@lemmy.mlEnglish · edit-23 months agoWhat's the greatest invention of 21st century, in your opinion?message-squaremessage-square94fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10file-text
arrow-up11arrow-down1message-squareWhat's the greatest invention of 21st century, in your opinion?starman@programming.dev to Asklemmy@lemmy.mlEnglish · edit-23 months agomessage-square94fedilinkfile-text
minus-squarerefalo@programming.devlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·3 months agoWhat smartphones existed in the 20th century?
minus-squaretobogganablaze@lemmus.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·3 months agoThe IBM Simon, Nokia Communicator or Ericsson R380 for example.
minus-squaretobogganablaze@lemmus.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·3 months agoSure, but the iPhone was far from the first smartphone.
minus-squarecriitz@reddthat.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·3 months agoHonestly the iphone was the first big (culturally) smartphone it not the first one.
minus-squaretobogganablaze@lemmus.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·edit-23 months agoI totally agree. But the question was about inventions not mass adaption. That’s like saying Henry Ford invented the car because the Model T was the first widely available one.
minus-squarecriitz@reddthat.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·3 months agoI think anything you could call a smartphone had to be from post-2000 though, right?
The smartphone
That was 20th century.
What smartphones existed in the 20th century?
The IBM Simon, Nokia Communicator or Ericsson R380 for example.
Didn’t the iPhone come 2007?
Sure, but the iPhone was far from the first smartphone.
Honestly the iphone was the first big (culturally) smartphone it not the first one.
I totally agree. But the question was about inventions not mass adaption.
That’s like saying Henry Ford invented the car because the Model T was the first widely available one.
I think anything you could call a smartphone had to be from post-2000 though, right?