"Henry Ford did not first conceive of the assembly line and then delegate its development to his managers. The Highland Park plant brought together managers and engineers who understood most of the manufacturing process, who pooled their ideas and used their different work experiences to create a new method of production." , led to the "Roaring Twenties," the period of the largest annual increase in labor and capital productivity in a hundred years.
That’s how to think about the mobile internet era. The iPhone feels like the beginning of the mobile internet because it unified andor distilled all the things we now think of as “mobile internet” into a minimum viable product that we could touch, hold, and love. But the mobile internet was created and driven by much more than that.
In fact, we’re probably not referring to the first iPhone, but the belarus mobile database second iPhone 3G which was the biggest model-to-model growth for the iPhone, increasing sales more than 4x. This second iPhone was the first to include 3G capabilities, which made mobile networks usable, operated the iOS App Store, and made wireless networks and smartphones useful.
But neither 3G nor the App Store are innovations or creations unique to Apple. The iPhone accesses 3G networks through chips made by Infineon, which connect via standards set by the ITU and GSMA, and are deployed by wireless providers like AT&T on antennas built by companies like Crown Castle and American Tower. There is “one app” for the iPhone because millions of developers built them, just as thousands of different companies built specialized electric motor equipment for factories in the 1920s.