Comment by jandrese

The iPhone was even worse, it launched without support for third party apps. Steve Jobs said that web apps would take their place. The original iPhone was also overpriced and underspecced in some areas and forced you on a crappy phone provider, but it had a significant price drop shortly after release and the iPhone 3G fixed most of the performance issues (mostly around the slow cell modem). Plus Apple released the app store and it was an enormous success, far more than the existing app stores on the Symbian phones.