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The greatest pivot was Project Purple which eventually was revisited as a tablet (iPad) but pivoted to the iPhone[1]

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPhone

Edit: I remembered it wrong. It was LG Prada that came before iPhone - that's the reason why iPhone did not feel completely novel at the time. iPod Touch was released few months later and was very similar to iPhone minus the cellular connection - a logical cheaper followup to the iPhone.

I think the iPhone came first before the iPod touch

yes -- iPhone announced in June 2007, iPod Touch was September 2007.

Nitpick: iPhone was announced in January, started selling over the summer.

There was no touch screen iPod before the iPhone.

iPhone came before the iPod Touch or the iPod nano (the one with the small touch screen).

while the LG Prada phone was announced (though not for US) about a month before iPhone [1], it was not available until after the iPhone announce so it not like it was a known item at that point. However, it was available (not in US) [2] a few months before iPhone was available so maybe there were people that used LG Prada then iPhone so a touchscreen phone was not completely novel.

however, the LG Prada was >$800 at launch so it seems that the impression was fairly limited to people who would spend $800 then $600 a few months later in 2007.

additionally, while the LG Prada had a touchscreen it wasnt really a smart phone. there was no full keyboard, texting and contact entry was with T9 [3].

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20070108070435/http://www.lge.co...

[2] https://macdailynews.com/2007/01/19/lg_unveils_iphone_like_p...

[3] https://www.gsmarena.com/lg_ke850_prada-review-145p2.php

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