The only thing Apple did for smartphones was capacitive touch for fingers, as opposed to QWERTY or stylus input. The first smartphone is arguably the 9000 Commu

The only thing Apple did for smartphones was capacitive touch for fingers, as opposed to QWERTY or stylus input. The first smartphone is arguably the 9000 Communicator (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nokia_9000_Communicator https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nokia_9000_Communicator), which was released in 1996. Even RIM (now Blackberry) only had a two-way pager back then.