Samsung should be grateful to Apple Inc. (AAPL) - Society & Religion - Society and Religion

We had smartphones before Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL), so that's trivially true. But they were awful, and since the pre-iPhone smartphone makers were churning out the same types of devices they had been for years even after the iPhone utterly changed the idea of what a smartphone is, I'm pretty skeptical of the idea that without the iPhone they would have spontaneously evolved a great deal more than they did even when they had the iPhone and Android phones around to rip off. In a world without the iPhone, we'd probably have a lot of devices that look like the Blackberry Bold 9900 (basically a circa-2007 era Blackberry on steroids) without the stuff RIM borrowed from the iPhone, and smartphone adoption would probably be much, much less. Apple basically set fire to the asses of every software developer out there, as well as every hardware company, and made them up their game in a massive way in order to compete. The influence Apple has had on the tech industry, in terms of philosophy, technology, simplicity, software design, and hardware design, is unbelievably massive. Apple has influenced everyone, in so many ways, big and small. I don't even want to think about where we'd be without Apple leading the way, because no other company has shown that it is capable of having such a bold vision, and consistently and executing on that vision in a successful way. You think we'd have Windows 8 UI, Android as it is today, Samsung Galaxies, etc? Think again. These were all reactions to Apple, and would not have happened organically by self-motivation within those companies. In short, I honestly believe we'd be YEARS behind where we are now, and the mobile situation would be an archaic mess that the consumer market would still not have embraced. It's almost impossible to imagine. WRITTEN BY IAN KEITH THOMAS AND SLURPY via Technology - Google News http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=t&fd=R&usg=AFQjCNGjL7eP348lQAbHFlW6NbaweWVvSQ&url=http://societyandreligion.com/samsung-grateful-apple-aapl/

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