> which clearly wasn't obvious to other competitors in the space
I had a family friend that was a tech writer in 2007 or so. He proudly mocked my interest in the first iPhone. Pulling me aside and showing me how his blackberry had a mini trackball and a mouse cursor and just how precise this all was.
It’s obviously funny now, but yea I remember a lot of the “smart money” was against the modern smartphone at the time.
