[dboreham]

Apple didn't start the smartphone market. There were smartphones for many years prior to the iPhone.

[catiopatio]

Apple started what we would recognize as the modern smartphone market.

Before that, we had things like the danger hiptop and blackberries. Incomparable.

[qwytw]

Windows Mobile was more advanced compared to the initial iPhone in almost every way (to be fair it wasn't a particularly useful device on launch). Of course the whole is more than just a sum of it's parts.