[perfopt]

The iPhone wowed everyone but its price was heavily criticized. Apple later got into the exclusive AT&T deal which "subsidized" the price. People just ended up paying more over time.

[elzbardico]

IPhone didn't have a pen. It didn't run symbian as it's OS. This is what I remember people complaining about.

[websap]

Let's not forget Steve Balmer laughingly mention that no serious business user would ever use a phone without a physical keyboard. People here are negative for the sake of it.

[crimsontech]

I bought one after using a blackberry and I was instantly sold on it because you could browse websites as if it was a computer, zooming in to the text section with a double tap. I remember my daughter wouldn't entertain the idea because it didn't run blackberry messenger which was the killer app for kids at the time.

[peyton]

It didn’t have a keyboard. Serious smartphones have keyboards.