In message , at 09:01:33 on Mon, 29 Jul
2019, Someone Somewhere remarked:
On 28/07/2019 14:46, 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)?

No - but given that originally the Jobs didn't see the true USP of the
iPhone (apps - you were meant to get content via HTML5 and the
browser), and that there apparently were prototypes of the iPhone with
a jog dial etc I'm going with they designed the iPhone first, and then
when they suddenly saw the market for apps they saw a market for a cut
down version.

The iPod Touch came out so soon after the iPhone, that while I'm
prepared to concede that my impression as a buyer (for at least the
first year the Touch was a more compelling purchase) doesn't strictly
match the manufacturing/launch timescale, nor can you evolve one from
the other and get it through the channel, in as short a period as three
months.

The only reason I didn't get a Touch was because there wasn't an obvious
way to plug a mobile data dongle into it.
--
Roland Perry