> "I Don’t Consider [The iPhone] To Be A Technological Breakthrough" Isn't this essentially a strawman, since no one is claiming that the iPhone is a Technolog

> "I Don’t Consider [The iPhone] To Be A Technological Breakthrough" Isn't this essentially a strawman, since no one is claiming that the iPhone is a Technological Breakthrough? At the time the iPhone came out, lots of people noted that it actually lagged technologically behind its smartphone peers (no 3G, subpar SMS functionality, etc), which was correct. And yet it won, it showed smartphone companies how to make a smartphone, and they have been copying that design/approach ever since. The iPhone didn't win because it was a technological breakthrough, and everyone in tech knows this, so I'm not sure why Thiel's comment is that noteworthy.