đź”™ Throwback Thursday for 2024-09-26
Reflecting on how iOS and webOS evolved from the iPhone 3GS and Palm Pre's launch 15 years ago.
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In these modern times of $1000+ smart phones, it is interesting to look back 15 years to when an iPhone 3GS sold 1M units in a weekend.
It was also just 15 years ago that you could get a Palm Pre which sold… only 0.1M units in an entire week.
The Palm Pre ran webOS. Today, webOS is running on 150M+ devices that are much larger than a phone.
The iPhone 3GS ran iOS. By comparison, iOS is now running on 2B+ devices ranging from the size of a phone to the size of a tablet… but tvOS is probably running on less than ~100M devices connected to flat panel TV screens.
Note: Some images via Unsplash
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