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Re:‘Catch Me If You Can’ conman Frank Abagnale Jr. lied abou... by astrange on Sunday March 19, 2023 @07:06PM (#35224712)
There were already smartphones like BlackBerry and Danger. None of them were "the iPhone".
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Re:‘Catch Me If You Can’ conman Frank Abagnale Jr. lied abou... by wkat4242 on Sunday March 19, 2023 @10:53PM (#35226701)
No but someone else would have made it eventually. Maybe a little bit later. Tech does not happen in a vacuum, even in earlier centuries the same invention happened around the same time in different parts of the world.
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