I think that’s hard to know. Nobody is ‘inventing’ smartphones except US, but there are substantial barriers to entry for non US manufacturers… language if noth

I think that’s hard to know. Nobody is ‘inventing’ smartphones except US, but there are substantial barriers to entry for non US manufacturers… language if nothing else. Also there is a massive network effect benefit by being just-first. My hunch is that if the US didn’t exist someone else would be doing this.