I think the Iridium situation in 1990 was a limitation of silicon chips. Moore's Law pretty much guarantees that a problem caused by limitations in silicon wil

I think the Iridium situation in 1990 was a limitation of silicon chips. Moore's Law pretty much guarantees that a problem caused by limitations in silicon will be transitory problems. In the case of the iPhone, there was a lack of innovation. The silicon of the day was up to the task. It's just that nobody had a product like the iPhone. The closest you'd find would probably be a Blackberry.