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> shitty browser Well, well, even the iOS Safari that shipped with the first iPhone was miles ahead of anything else out there.

• TotoHorner 3y ago
  Sure, I just meant compared to what we have today.
• godzillabrennus 3y ago
  People who used a blackberry can understand how big of a jump the iPhone was for mobile browsing.
  • rob74 3y ago
    TBF back then no site was optimized to be viewed on a small screen, only after the iPhone and then Android came along did we get "mobile-friendly" or even "mobile-first" sites...
    • dpkonofa 3y ago
      That's not entirely true. WAP browsing was the norm for most mobile devices. The stuff we call "mobile-friendly" now is light years ahead of what we had then.
• tiahura 3y ago
  Opera on Windows Mobile?
• Fnoord 3y ago
  Fennec (Mozilla Firefox for Mobile) was already a thing before iPhone was released. The distortion here is that capacitive touch took on with iPhone release. Which lead to a surge of websites supporting such (albeit usually optimized for iPhone/iOS + Safari).
  • dpkonofa 3y ago
    No mainstream phone launched with Fennec. Safari on iPhone was a game changer when everyone else was used to WAP browsing which was all scaled down, text-based web pages.
    • Fnoord 3y ago
      Of course, but that doesn't mean Fennec wasn't miles ahead. I mean, the original iPhone didn't even have multitouch zoom. Innovation vs invention. People have rose-tinted glasses about the past. They forget the bad, only remember the good.
      • dpkonofa 3y ago
        Sorry but you're wrong. It doesn't matter if Fennec was miles ahead if there was no device to use it on (unless you knew the magic incantations to get it working on one) and the original iPhone did have multitouch zoom too. Jobs demoed it on-stage.