[hej]

That's the technology. Apple actually made people want those touch devices. They were the first ones to package it correctly.

I'm sure there were many people who thought and wrote about rrepublics and democracies before the French revolution. But the revolution was what did it.

Maybe the technology of those other phones was revolutionary. But revolutionary technology no one wants hardly matters. Apple found the revolutionary package.

[jack-r-abbit]

I think a lot of people wanted to use the Palm touch devices. There was a time when "Palm Pilot" was the "Kleenex" or "Band-aid" of the PDA world. Everything was a "Palm Pilot" even if it wasn't. Even future Palm products were "Palm Pilots" to the outsider. Now, Palm did not do a super job when it moved to the PDA+Phone mashup. It was clunky... not sexy.

[hej]

But how many people used PDAs? Those were always niche devices.

Smartphones is where it's at.