[magnuspaaske]

The beautiful thing with the iPhone was that it wasn't a "smartphone" per se, but rather just a beautiful new kind of device and then people would get used to the smart features later. I had a PDA a couple of years before the iPhone and while it was certainly novel to have a digital planner as a teenager the "electronic calendar" or "email on the go" use cases just weren't really big. Listening to music and reading news on the go were great use cases though

[RandallBrown]

I remember when the iPhone came out there were hundreds of articles about how the iPhone was specifically not a smartphone.

[rxyz]

Of course it wasn't a smartphone before the App Store update.