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Note Apple came to this market from a different direction than most other cellphone makers. Their first mobile computer was a revolutionary music player (innova

Note Apple came to this market from a different direction than most other cellphone makers. Their first mobile computer was a revolutionary music player (innovative UI and music store). It evolved into a sophisticated media computer with color video, wireless and computer utilities in the last iTouch before the iPhone. (Apple still ships iTouches which are the iPhone device without the cellular phone in it, or a micro iPad.) So they pretty much had a full fledge mobile computer before grafting phone technology into it.

dragonwriter 11y ago
> Their first mobile computer was a revolutionary music player The Newton was not a revolutionary music player, and no Apple music player before the iPhone was a "mobile computer" in a sense that would make this portrayal meaningful and accurate. > It evolved into a sophisticated media computer with color video, wireless and computer utilities in the last iTouch before the iPhone. iPod Touch (sometimes nicknamed "iTouch") was introduced after the iPhone, running a later version of iPhone OS (the OS which later became iOS) than the first iPhone. There was no "iTouch before the iPhone." There was the old-style wheel-controlled iPod before the iPhone, and that was a revolutionary (at least in terms of commercial impact) music player, but it wasn't a "mobile computer" in the same sense as the iPod Touch, modern smartphones, or even earlier PDAs or the Apple Newton.