The only thing Apple did for smartphones was capacitive touch for fingers, as opposed to QWERTY or stylus input. The first smartphone is arguably the 9000 Communicator (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Nokia_9000_Communicator" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Nokia_9000_Communicator</a>), which was released in 1996. Even RIM (now Blackberry) only had a two-way pager back then.