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iPhone 2007: Smartphone 1998 and capacitive touch in 1980s. Wasn't used on phones & PDA so that higher resolution (resistive) could be used for signatures, annotation, handwriting recognition. The "innovation" for success was a the all in one big data allowance with one operator per country for consumers vs people paying per second connect time or per Mbyte used for business users. They bought in Samsung CPU (that innovated flash and RAM piggy backed in the package & screen and Fingerworks GUI.
iPod: Again late to party. The "innovation" was deal for 99c per track with studios. Upset musicians of concept albums. Makes an entire album more expensive than CD.
iPad: Really very late. Tablet computing maybe from 1994?
Apple's Newton was innovative and first ARM handheld, but over hyped and killed when Jobs came back.
Android was a year later than iOS, and bought in by Google. Microsoft had badly done Pen version of Win 3.x because someone brought out a pen/Tablet OS. There was also a poor tablet edition of XP, that wasn't great. XP also had voice recognition and TTS.
Computing was held back by IBM adoption of 8088 and DOS, which was based on CP/M.
So it's not quibble. Apple developed Apple II, Lisa, Mac, GUI, brought in the OS X based on NextStep (Job's failed Company) based on BSD to replace OS9 and earlier not very good OS under the GUI.
Apple developed an all in one PC (iMac), an idea from late 1970s. They developed the iPod, the iPhone based on marketing clevers on an established market. Similarly the iPad and Apple Watch.
The Apple Silicon was developed by a bought in ARM cpu design company.
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