Indeed.

Meanwhile, much of the "unique" stuff in the first iPhone was already out there: capacitative touch, gestures, even some of the smaller UI elements they tried to patent like slide-to-unlock. There isn't AFAICT a single major thing which Apple was first with.

Also, let's all remember that the very first version of the iPhone was hampered by no 3G data, and no third-party app support.

Apple still should get quite a bit of credit for putting all of those things together in a very nicely design package, and for setting a bunch of UI conventions up that worked well going forward. But the notion that they were a revolution in anything other than marketing is a bit much...