There was already a market for mobile phones—car phones, suitcase phones, etc preceded the pocket sized mobile. So it was a natural progression to just making t

There was already a market for mobile phones—car phones, suitcase phones, etc preceded the pocket sized mobile. So it was a natural progression to just making them smaller. Even phones themselves were improvements on other prior forms of communication. Every new invention builds upon what came before it in some way, right? Like, perhaps when Daguerre was developing his earliest cameras, people wondered why we would want to capture pictures like that. I think not, though, because there was already analogs in the form of paintings and things. This is completely new territory, and it feels a bit like a solution looking for a problem. There really isn’t a prior analog that I can think of! But maybe there is, and I just am missing it. But I could imagine it being transformational, if it is eventually found.