When Steve Jobs announced the original iPhone in 2007, the first big leap forward, it was made possible by the confluence of several rapidly emerging technologies — capacitive multitouch, ubiquitous mobile data networks, and miniaturized computing.

All of these technologies existed prior to the iPhone but they’d never been brought together before in anything as polished or approachable as the iPhone.

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