stackyFACTSApple actively helped another company beat them to the punch. The Motorola ROKR E1 launched in 2005 with Steve Jobs' blessing, acting as a terribly clunky cell phone that could only hold exactly one hundred songs. It was a miserable failure, which conveniently paved the perfect runway for Apple to swoop in with their own iPhone.
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