The head designer for the original iPhone said Steve Jobs wanted to do two things. He just hated the phone interfaces and he thought it was an elegant to have a separate iPod in your pocket next to your phone. Do you think that we've only had diminishing returns since that original vision? I would say the bulk of them happened in that 2007 and 2009 period where the key elements came together for what we think of as smartphone today.

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