I still don't understand why people care so much about the iPhone. It's a bad computer that fits in your pocket. We've had PDAs for going on thirty years. Sure, it was a good PDA, but I have no idea how anyone can consider it revolutionary.
"Consumer" tech hasn't improved at all in my estimation since about 2002. The hardware has gotten better and the software has gotten more bloated, but a modern gadget can do roughly zero things that a gadget from 2002 couldn't.