And I owned a 7710 (a touchscreen Symbian phone) - before the 770 tablet was released.

But, I've lived in Silicon Valley, there is a lot of innovation there (here - I still live only a little north of the valley proper).

Apple is part of it, but they are not the whole. And there's a reasonably large Nokia facility right off the 101 highway which runs between San Francisco and San Jose (and beyond).

And, a large Evil Empire (sorry, Microsoft ) campus in Mountain View.