&gt;&gt;&gt; Everything before the iPhone was qualitatively and quantitatively inferior, even if it happened to have a janky plastic touch screen.<p>&gt;&gt;At least it wasn&#x27;t the capacitive junk that all of them are now.<p>&gt;You are probably the only individual alive that is going to argue for resistive, probably because Apple...<p>Have you ever used a resistive screen? But of course, who would ever use a stylus to hit ridiculously small targets without having to zoom in...<p>&gt;&gt;&gt; They sure as hell weren&#x27;t running slimmed down desktop operating systems with fully-featured frameworks.<p>&gt;&gt;iOS is definitely not a desktop OS. Where are the files? Multi-user support? Terminal?<p>&gt;So the early versions of Windows&#x2F;Mac OS&#x2F;Amiga etc weren&#x27;t desktop OS&#x27;s? Now you are being ridiculous.<p>Why does it matter that it&#x27;s based on something that&#x27;s ran on a desktop machine, if all the features that define <i>modern</i> desktop OSes are hidden&#x2F;removed? Other than that it&#x27;s just a form factor and a meaningless label.<p>&gt;&gt;&gt; They ran whatever software your carrier deigned to offer at vastly inflated prices.<p>&gt;&gt;As opposed to whatever software Apple deigns to offer at vastly inflated prices?<p>&gt;Really? Arguably, Apple sell software at a low price to attract users to it&#x27;s hardware!<p>They sell an arbitrary pick of software at a ridiculous markup. But of course, that&#x27;s great when Apple does it, and terrible when anyone else does!