the first iPhone was years ahead of its time, but the first Apple foldable is arguably the exact same (if not inferior) to the competition, with the exception of the good user experience we're used to from Apple
• No 3G! This made the whole "i" part of the iPhone mostly worthless when not connected to wifi. Other phones had 3G.
• No installable apps. Many argued about whether it was a smartphone at all.
• No copy/paste.
• No multi-tasking.
etc. Probably more I forgot. Its competitors had all of these.
et cetera et cetera
> the first iPhone was years ahead of its time
Not really, not if you were paying attention to the market at the time. It was the first smartphone to put everything in a cohesive package instead of being a weird little computer that could make phone calls, but technologically it was comparable to features that already existed when it released. The real innovation was in UI and product design.