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Originally posted by Flare
...Nintendo INVENTED that bandwagon with DS. Then Apple followed suit, then the other girls and tablets. The rest is history. Nintendo popularized/invented many ideas that are now the norm yet they never get the credit 
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Apple already had a touch-tablet with the Newton in the 90's that was very well known.
In the early 2000's they started working on a color version which then spawned the iPad (and the iPhone and iPod before it).
The Newton used an OS really similar to what Android and iOS look like today. I think the only thing Nintendo did was show people what you could do with a touchscreen in gaming, but they hardly invented the "bandwagon" because touchscreen tablets were already around, hence Windows XP tablet edition being released.