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Yes, clearly the iPhone was just an IBM Simon[1] with a "bit more polish". Probably took just one or two weeks of engineering effort. Unclear why the IBM sold 50k and the iPhone sold 6M, perhaps just due to marketing budget?

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:IBM%27s_SweetSpot_sm...

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I mean there was plenty that happened in this space between 1992 and 2007. Smartphones were already ubiquitous for business users by 2007 but not for general consumers, including Blackberry, PalmOS, and Windows Mobile devices. As late as 2010 Blackberry was still dominant: https://www.comscore.com/Insights/Press-Releases/2011/1/comS...

Having moved from a Windows Mobile device (MDA Vario 2) to the iPhone 3GS it was clear that the former had no place calling itself a "smart" phone.

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