I'm having the unpleasant sensation of my neurons rearranging themselves to account for the realisation that my memory of the relevant events was so fundamentally incorrect. I do apologise.
I'm fairly new to commenting on HN, is it bad form to delete my comment to avoid the downvotes? EDIT: just realised that I don't even have that option anymore.
Back on topic - I think the iPhone was a risky launch. It was really unknown at the time whether it would succeed. I didn't think it would, but I didn't think the iPod would succeed either when it was launched in 2001.
I'm fairly new to commenting on HN, is it bad form to delete my comment to avoid the downvotes? EDIT: just realised that I don't even have that option anymore.