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I give Apple indirect credit for touch-screen keyboards. I don't think they invented them, but their marketing of the iPhone resulted in mass adoption regardless of how good/bad the on-screen keyboard was. And that created market research that led to the significantly better ones we have now.
I remember using one on an original iPhone for a few minutes and thinking I'd never waste my money on it--it was so unpleasant to use that it sullied the whole experience for me. Finally gave in somewhere around 2013 when they had gotten usable and there were multiple options.
They definitely weren't the first for touch screens, but I definitely agree that they pushed the smartphone industry to put a lot more work into it.
Prior touchscreens were laggy and unpleasant. Apple just gave us a really smooth touch screen (It was good for it's time) experience compared to what was out there and that forced other smartphone makers to get with the program.
I dunno. Apart from predictive text I don't see a whole lot of difference between the onscreen keyboard on my current phone vs the one on a 1990s Palm Pilot, and I'm pretty sure the old school iOS onscreen keyboards didn't have that.