In considering the recent lawsuits against Apple, one of the most frequent responses is that the very notion of a touchscreen smartphone or tablet is so obvious that the lawsuit doesn’t make sense. What such folk fail to realize, however, is that nobody had managed to make a commercially successful touchscreen phone or tablet until Apple came along.
To illustrate the point, check out the following image from Obama Pacman demonstrating what tablets looked like before the iPad versus after.
The image pretty much speaks for itself….