[Uchikoma]

"Long before the iPhone, MS came out with portable and mobile computers"

Not to rain on your parade, but you do new about the Newton?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newton_(platform) (which I loved)

And how late MS was to the portable game?

[loverobots]

Re-reading my comment it seems like I dissed Apple. I didn't mean to, actually I meant to say that OS developers (Apple obviously included) have a lot of patents that pertain to smartphones.