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Well, without getting into an argument about what exactly made the iPhone revolutionary in terms of features and design, I think the evidence is clear: average people didn't buy smartphones before the iPhone came out, they did after it came out. Now every phone looks like an iPhone. Sounds revolutionary to me, in every sense of the word.



Touchscreen does not make a smartphone. Plenty of people had non-touchscreen smartphones prior to the iPhone.




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