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Eh...they kinda combined palm pilot with a cellphone. Used watered down macOs (aka...mostlty from permissive free licenced already there software)...but, they did work on a very pretty UI (that they actually made).
Apple's revolution, in my mind, is their marketing department. They sure wrapped Unix in shiny and shinier boxes and learned how to rip off trendy people whilsed getting praised for "innovation".
Just my useless 2 cents! Take it for what it's worth.
Nah their révolution is taking the éléments you presented in your first paragraph and made it work plus marketing.
yes, that "kinds combined palm with a phone" it's not so easy, as it's not so easy to provide a UI that works fine and it's easy to use. If this is not innovation, what is it? Now it looks easy, but it wasn't the case. Marketing per se is not a bad thing, it's a capitalistic society where companies need to sell and prevail over others and marketing helps inform/promote products.