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> But I think it's interesting to remember how slow that took. The iPhone was released in 2007, but the real winners of mobile were launched years later -- Uber (2010), Snapchat (2011), and TikTok (2016)

You mean how fast that took, right?

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And really something more like 2010 is probably a better date for when the iPhone really took off with the 3GS generation. There were obviously earlier smartphones as well (Blackberry, Treo) but they weren't really mainstream devices and didn't especially enable third-party apps.

So, yeah, there was a maybe five year (and certainly less than ten) period when smartphones went from a fairly niche thing to ubiquity which is very fast compared to technology adoption generally.