Comment Re:Last sentence (Score 1) 420
I'm not sure why you feel the need to spam your pretty argument after a good majority of the posts here as the iPhone was a lot more than just a pretty new phone. The iPhone made doing more than making calls on a phone easy and almost entirely intuitive. If you handed any other phone (pre iPhone) you've mentioned above to nearly anyone on the street along with an iPhone, you'd see pretty quickly how one is in fact usable and the other not nearly as much. As a single point, browsing the internet on any phone before the iPhone was nearly unusable. If a website didn't have a specific stripped down mobile version you probably couldn't even render it. The iPhone brought a lot of technologies together in a way that was easy to use, did what you wanted and didn't take a manual to figure out. And yes, it did all of this while still being pretty.
While Jobs' legacy will include the iPhone, he will be compared to Edison, et al for everything he did in his career, including playing a major role in the emerging home computer market, rebuilding a failing company into not only a leader in its field, but one of the largest in the world, and creating market changing devices such as the iPod, iPhone and iPad. But you keep thinking this is all because he made a phone pretty.