So this pops here but nothing about the rejection of the "plead" to ban Sammy stuff in the US....feed up the fanboys, they will keep trolling for us as long as we kept them well feed....
Of course the info graphic forgets the Apple Newton. The 1987 introduced a touchpad minimal buttons design ... It was marketed like all Apple products of the time, that is not very much at all. But it predates the palm PDA. And it was deemed to radical a departure from the norm for the enterprise. By the time the newton 2100 came out it was a well received device. Among the devotees.
Well, Apple waited with getting in the cell game betting on the future. They won and now capitalize on closing the deal of 70 years of research and innovation by all the others claiming Apple did it all. Brilliant.