"Before the iPhone, the only people who had/wanted smart phones were "uncool" business people[1]." I think this is demonstrably untrue. Blackberry's were popul

"Before the iPhone, the only people who had/wanted smart phones were "uncool" business people[1]." I think this is demonstrably untrue. Blackberry's were popular with regular people as well. BBM was huge amongst non techies, at least outside the US. The problem was they were too expensive. Which is why Blackberry released the Pearl in 2006 which was entirely a consumer product.