&gt; ... while everyone else were thinking like geeks willing to sacrifice usability for a &quot;imagine if..&quot; ideal of devices that were ultimately quite unfulfilling.<p>As someone who was there on the consumer side, with an HTC Wizard bought in 2006 -- the year before the iPhone was released -- I completely agree with this. I <i>did</i> make the sacrifice of usability, because having the Internet accessible <i>everywhere</i> on a <i>touchscreen</i> was <i>awesome</i>. I didn&#x27;t understand the iPhone either. From the perspective of the hackfest that was Windows Mobile 5&#x2F;6, I saw a very limited and locked down device.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;HTC_Wizard" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;HTC_Wizard</a>