[nostrademons]

It was very much unevenly distributed. I worked in Boston when the iPhone came out and nobody I knew had one - hell, people were still excited about their Razrs and LG flip phones. I moved to Silicon Valley for Google in 2009, and all my coworkers had a G1, because the company had given them out for Christmas the previous month. When I finally got my G1, I was like "I don't really see the point of it, other than looking up facts on Wikipedia" and one of my coworkers was like "Dude, once you get used to it, you will never want to go back. It's just so useful." Even as late as Dec 2009 (2.5 years after the iPhone came out), I went back for Christmas and all of my relatives were amazed that my phone could do voice recognition and turn-by-turn navigation. None of them had a smartphone...hell, my mom finally jumped on the iPhone bandwagon last year.