A decade ago, the world seemed like it wasn't ready for the iPhone. Research showed most people in affluent societies didn't want converged devices. But today we live in the age of the smartphone, which, for better or worse, was almost single-handedly ushered in by Apple's rectangular phone.A

Based on that paragraph can we conclude that this sentence is true?
A year ago, the world seemed like it wasn't ready for the iPhone.
No