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>Despite becoming more similar in recent years, the cell phone supply chain is still very different than the automotive supply chain.

“We’ve learned and struggled for a few years here figuring out how to make a decent phone,” he said. “PC guys are not going to just figure this out. They’re not going to just walk in.”

(Palm CEO Ed Colligan, regarding Apple’s prospects in the mobile phone market)

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Apple worked with Motorola to figure out how to do it.

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I don't think so. Apple had ditched Motorola for cpus for 2 years by the time the iPhone came out.

Motorola had no clue about Apple making a phone, and Apple wasn't getting phone-making knowledge from them.

If you mean about before, their single phone collaboration with Motorola was just a 100% Motorola phone design running an Apple-provided music player part.

Motorola didn't collaborate with Apple on the design of that phone or anything, Apple didn't get any IP or copied any elements, and nor was the iPhone anything like it.