&gt; They didn&#x27;t have the animation or feedback systems that made iOS so pleasant to use.<p>Yay, glitter is the only thing that matters!<p>&gt; None of them even pretended to offer a real web browser - it was WAP if anything.<p>Worked fine from what I remember.<p>&gt; Everything before the iPhone was qualitatively and quantitatively inferior, even if it happened to have a janky plastic touch screen.<p>At least it wasn&#x27;t the capacitive junk that all of them are now.<p>&gt; They sure as hell weren&#x27;t running slimmed down desktop operating systems with fully-featured frameworks.<p>iOS is definitely not a desktop OS. Where are the files? Multi-user support? Terminal?<p>&gt; They ran whatever software your carrier deigned to offer at vastly inflated prices.<p>As opposed to whatever software Apple deigns to offer at vastly inflated prices?