As much as people like to bash everyone who said in 2007 that the iPhone was nothing more than an expensive toy has to remember that the iPhone didn't have an application store (other than the jailbreak version) until July 2008.
And without the app store it was a great pice of engineering but if you didn't saw a jailbreaked version it was a big phone (for the time) where you can play music, watch videos and go to a completely non mobile friendly web with a crappy browser. Add to that how expensive it was compared to other phones how low the battery lasted and how fragile it was you can see why not everyone was that impressed.
It's too easy to say 7 years later, look at this fool he was wrong.
And without the app store it was a great pice of engineering but if you didn't saw a jailbreaked version it was a big phone (for the time) where you can play music, watch videos and go to a completely non mobile friendly web with a crappy browser. Add to that how expensive it was compared to other phones how low the battery lasted and how fragile it was you can see why not everyone was that impressed.
It's too easy to say 7 years later, look at this fool he was wrong.