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I'm sorry, but I disagree with "revolutionary". I think it was pretty obvious. It just needed someone with money and some balls to take the "risk" to make the "obvious" interface to mass market a product with those features. Blackbeeries have been around since 1999, the "telephone as a communication device" was already something in demand. Just put some fancy touch interface instead of reducing the screen size for keys, an obvious solution for a device so small such as a telephone, and voila.
All this "destroy the Android" babble from late Jobs is quite infuriating, since the iPhone itself was built on ideas already used on established products (Palm, Blackberries and Pocket PC), innovations which Jobs himself mentions on that 2007 iPhone presentation. Just adding a touch screen to it is not revolutionary, Apple was just "the first" to do it. The Macintosh in 1984 was revolutionary. The biggest problem is that the cult of Apple allows them to be considered an almost "legitimate patent troll" and get away with it.