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by warpech 1471 days ago
Apple invented the non-standard "viewport" meta tag and gave guidelines on how to use it [1]. The article that has popularized the term RWD mentions iPhone four times [2]. For me it is obvious that RWD started from the iPhone, but maybe our viewpoints (or viewports) differ.

[1] https://developer.apple.com/library/archive/documentation/Ap...

[2] https://alistapart.com/article/responsive-web-design/

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A great piece of history, that ALA article.

I believe you are right, but on a different level. Iphone started the mobile revolution which inspired other phone builders. When earlier we used build m.website.tld websites, the bigger screens from Iphone-inspired smartphones allowed us to use the same website, with mediaqueries.

Maybe it's because I'm Europe based, but we didn't really develop for iphones initally.