It wasn't years ahead of its time. It was nice but the original iPhone was far behind its smartphone competitors in many respects. IIRC: • No 3G! This made the

It wasn't years ahead of its time. It was nice but the original iPhone was far behind its smartphone competitors in many respects. IIRC: • No 3G! This made the whole "i" part of the iPhone mostly worthless when not connected to wifi. Other phones had 3G. • No installable apps. Many argued about whether it was a smartphone at all. • No copy/paste. • No multi-tasking. etc. Probably more I forgot. Its competitors had all of these.