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iPhone's capacitive touchscreen was new and revolutionary. Microsoft had some success in the early 2000s with Windows Mobile but they inexplicably stopped investing into it after 2005. Without Apple it might have taken many more years before the mobile revolution kicked off in earnest.

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LG released a capacitive touchscreen phone before Apple by a month. The technology was out there and was always going to get used by someone.

Here's a modern review of the original LG Prada, from the noted iPhone lovers at Android Authority. You be the judge.

https://www.androidauthority.com/lg-prada-1080646/

>The LG Prada was the first mobile phone with a capacitive touchscreen, but there are reasons why you don't remember it.

Didn't say the iPhone wasn't an improvement on the status quo with regards to UI. All I said is that it didn't invent the form nor the hardware.

In my first post on this thread, I said Apple improved the packaging of smartphones (ie. form, UI, ecosystem).

You must also think Apple invented the notch, fingerprint scanner, capacitive touchscreen phone, music playing device, the desktop GUI and mouse.

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