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Nah. I'm rewatching and they have the whole "breakthrough internet communicator" thing right at the top, and he makes fun of existing smartphones for only having the "baby internet". Also there weren't apps at first, the whole thing was supposed to use web apps (Carmack famously gave Jobs the hard sell on apps).

But aside from all that, the point was the UX. There's the whole "smartphones are hard to use" angle which was really the raison d'etre for the whole thing. And now? Phones work like the iPhone worked.




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