Hearing it about the Apple Vision Pro now is interesting, because all the impressive tech aside, it’s in a very different kind of category. The iPhone was Apple entering a big and active market whose benefits and utility were well established. 2007 era dismissals of the iPhone weren’t critiques of *the utility of cell phones*, they were centered on performance and feature parity between the iphone and existing products like the RAZR, Palm PDAs, and BlackBerries.