There was plenty of actual innovation with the iPhone. It was the first consumer capacitive touch device, it invented a whole host of new UI concepts and inter-

There was plenty of actual innovation with the iPhone. It was the first consumer capacitive touch device, it invented a whole host of new UI concepts and inter-app integration that wasn't available on other devices at the time. I agree that there are plenty of good examples of incremental innovation (which the iPhone may debatably be). It's a very well known and obvious example of meaningful innovation (society is different post-iPhone) that demonstrates the point I was trying to make which is: not all innovation can happen at a grass roots level.