On Sun, 28 Jul 2019 14:46:19 +0100, Roland Perry
wrote:

In message , at 12:58:48 on Sun, 28 Jul
2019, Someone Somewhere remarked:

If anything, the iPhone is an iPod-Touch with a phone added.

Given the iPod touch was released later, it's more like an iPhone with
the phone removed.

Do you know for sure which was designed first (rather than which was
released first)?

The iPhone came first.

The stories go that Jobs created an internal competition between
Apple's Mac and iPod design teams to see which could come up with a
phone first; the Mac team won. The operating system of the new phone
was based on OS X (and the early announcements actually called it OS
X), but the actual release version was officially called iPhone OS.
This was later shortened to iOS (sparking a trademark battle with
Cisco, which called its own device software IOS. Apple eventually
caved in and paid Cisco for permission to use the name).

Creating a cut-down phone without phone capabilities was an obvious
next step, and the iPod Touch was duely born. It is (or, at least, the
first version was) extremely similar in design and construction to an
iPhone, with the exception of the telephony capabilities.

There's an interesting review of the first generation iPod Touch he

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2007...he-ipod-touch/

Mark