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		thedance on March 9, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: How I built the best-selling BlackBerry app The API for BB app development allowed you to have UI elements like text labels or buttons, stacked vertically on the screen. That was the whole thing. If you wanted a table you were on your own. The web browser was very similar to MSIE 3, or NetPositive: it laid everything out vertically, didn’t support tables or CSS. When the iPhone came out with a real web browser it was like it came from another galaxy.

exikyut on March 10, 2020 [–]

I get the vertical UI was because the system had initially gone all-in on a scrollwheel, and never fundamentally moved on beyond that point.

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