Wall St Engine(@wallstengine):Sam Altman: AI Has Not Had Its iPhone Moment “And I think this is mostly a product failure. The phase that we’re in now reminds me of smartphones before the iPhone. I was an early adopter. I had a Palm Treo in 2003 or 2004. A lot of the technology was there. It was missing multitouch, but mostly it was missing the product ideas that made the iPhone the iPhone. I feel like we are now in a world where we have all of the technological pieces, but we have not had the iPhone moment of completely changing how someone interfaces with technology.”

2026.08.24 10:37

Sam Altman: AI Has Not Had Its iPhone Moment “And I think this is mostly a product failure. The phase that we’re in now reminds me of smartphones before the iPhone. I was an early adopter. I had a Palm Treo in 2003 or 2004. A lot of the technology was there. It was missing multitouch, but mostly it was missing the product ideas that made the iPhone the iPhone. I feel like we are now in a world where we have all of the technological pieces, but we have not had the iPhone moment of completely changing how someone interfaces with technology.”