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Re:Apple is a traditional business by imron on Wednesday May 02, 2018 @12:25PM (#16978571)
> It's likely that we would have ended up with something very similar to today's smartphones even if the iPhone had never existed.

I'm not so sure.

A picture says a thousand words:

https://www.cultofmac.com/145083/what-phones-looked-like-bef...

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Re:Apple is a traditional business by srslack on Wednesday May 02, 2018 @12:32PM (#16978651)
The LG Prada is certainly worth some words of acknowledgement, but acknowledging it wouldn't fit the narrative that page is attempting to cultivate. There are also examples going further back, such as the IBM Simon, and of course Apple's own Newton, which is technically not a smart phone.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LG_Prada

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Re:Apple is a traditional business by neuromantik8086 on Wednesday May 02, 2018 @12:36PM (#16978688)
Agreed:

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/76/Ap...

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