This page needs an app showcase or something. WHY do I want this? The original iPhone ad did this really well https://imgur.com/a/K1a6ILL (am on mobile so sorry for low res)
The original iPhone didn't solve this at all, you had no apps.
I think they intended to say the original iPhone Apps ad.
Well TIL that Spore had an iPhone version.
there were a lot of decent AAA adaptations on iOS in the first 3-5 years. In-app purchases ruined consumers' expectations of app/game pricing; then subscriptions doubled down on that.
Then the deprecation of 32bit apps made many of those early ports disappear forever.