Qwerty no more
Before the iPhone, every business person carried a BlackBerry on their hip. The Blackberry wanted the most stylish phone on the market, but it did have a rocking physical keyboard. Instead of double and triple tapping on keys to type out text messages, you could bang out a message on a full-fledged qwerty keyboard. As good as the BlackBerry keyboard, it paled in comparison to the onscreen keyboard pioneered by the iPhone.
The onscreen keyboard was more than a BlackBerry keyboard killer. It revolutionized display technology, too. Because the iPhone used a collapsible software keyboard instead of a physical keyboard, Apple could equip its debut smartphone with a nearly full-length display. A smartphone that was mostly screen? That was unheard of back then. Apple became a driving force behind display technology eventually introducing the retina display, ProMotion technology, and more.