• Aatube@kbin.melroy.org
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    But the only thing Apple had over those other music players was marketing.

    That’s rich. At the very least they had the first consumer touchscreen smartphone.

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      Technically that was the LG Prada a few months before the iPhone. The iPhone was the first multitouch smartphone however.

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        That was a luxury luxury phone and the reason I wrote “consumer”. but now I realize luxury things are also consumer goods-

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          The first iPhone was something like $600 vs the Prada at $750 or something. Both were certainly “luxury”. Especially compared to say my BlackBerry Pearl I had around that time which was around $200.