Comment Re:From nothing... (Score 1) 458
The thing is, the phone built on the foundation of the Apple Newton and what they learned from that.
I think a lot of that knowledge went fallow and they mostly started from scratch.
it isn't like Steve Jobs was seized by inspiration, locked himself in his office for a week and then walked out with a fully functional iPhone
Only die-hard Apple Haters (of which Slashdot holds many) ever come up with drivel like that, meant to belittle others who have the audacity to like something. People like you though seem to want to pretend the whole thing was just about that easy to produce, to make sure Apple gets no credit whatsoever for the work that went into it.