OdinHades said:
Yeah, but nobody cares about Sega. It's like Sony's and Nokia's smartphones. Technically those existed before the iPhone. But no one gives a crap, Apple invented the smartphone, period. ;P |
While we're at it, let's call out Apple as the copycat that they are. Give credit where it's due.
To be fair, most people (at least outside the US) don't even think Apple invented the smartphone, they just popularized the touch screen.
According to a documentary I saw about the rise and fall of Nokia, even the touch screen was ripped off of a Finnish inventor who pitched it to all the major phone manufacturers, but none of them were interested. The inventor said that Steve Jobs came in during his pitch at Apple and fiddled with his prototype for a while, asking some questions about it. Nothing came from that pitch either, but fast forward a little bit and boom, there was the first iPhone with a touch screen.
Needless to say, the execs at Nokia have been kicking themselves ever since..
