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Or why it has so many typos.

iPhone users rarely send e-mail with typos; instead, they send e-mail with (at best) nonsensical words or phrases in place of what they meant, or (at worst) entirely sensical phrases that had nothing to do with what they meant ('how big is that disk you got last night' -> 'how big is that dick you got last night').

As an iPhone owner, I've learned to double-check everything I type.

Did BlackBerry start putting those messages in first, before Apple did the iPhone?

Yes.

Article from Jan 2007 telling you how to remove that message from Blackberry's: http://www.bbhub.com/2007/01/02/how-to-banish-your-sent-from...

iPhone came out in June 2007 so .. looks like BB's did it first.

My SE K790 had a "Sent using a Sony Ericsson Phone" message as early as Sep 2006!

Lots of "sent from my Blackberry" footers in the Enron email corpus (ca 2000-2001)

I view it as some yuppy jackass being able to prove he overpaid for a phone that doesn't actually make phone calls.