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By greatest invention I mean something that had big and positive influence.

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[โ€“] Name@feddit.nu -1 points 3 months ago (7 children)
[โ€“] tobogganablaze@lemmus.org 13 points 3 months ago (6 children)

Sure, but the iPhone was far from the first smartphone.

[โ€“] criitz@reddthat.com 4 points 3 months ago (4 children)

Honestly the iphone was the first big (culturally) smartphone it not the first one.

[โ€“] Nath@aussie.zone 1 points 3 months ago

It may depend on your culture, but Blackberry and Windows Mobile phones were both fairly common in business circles years before iPhones.

The iPhone was an incremental advancement, not a major invention out of nowhere. The first iPhone was actually pretty crap compared to some models on the market. It wasn't until the 3G model that iPhones took off.

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