The first iPhone only barely beat to market theHTC Dream. It was very similar to the iPhone in terms of being a modern smart phone, and the way we use smart pho

The first iPhone only barely beat to market theHTC Dream. It was very similar to the iPhone in terms of being a modern smart phone, and the way we use smart phones today would not be that much different or that much less common if the iPhone never existed. If there was a bigger gap between the iPhone and HTC Dream, you could maybe make an argument that one influenced the other. But that's not really the case. If it wasn't for the first ride-sharing company like Uber getting successful, we could have very well seen another decade+ of shitty taxi cabs.