"... it matters to you whether your phone has 64 or 128 GB of RAM"
Holy Cow! I want that phone! I've only got 8 GB of RAM on my desktop.
"The first iPhone had apps..."
The only apps the original iPhone had were the kind you could get on any feature phone: weather, stocks, etc... It wasn't until later that the app store opened and really changed things.
As a whole, the article seems incredibly uninformed about technology. I would give the author a pass, but their conclusion doesn't seem to agree with history either. When the iPhone and iPad were released they were incredibly expensive and dismissed as toys for geeks. Less than a decade later those two devices have revolutionized technology and given Apple a dominant position. Apple has already crossed the chasm. Not with MacBooks, but with iPhones.